Road Tax Refund question

Having recently swapped bikes, I surrendered a Road Tax disk for refund
(using the appropriate form from the PO) and have just received a
'standard letter' which says effectively: 'thank you for telling us, we
have updated our records' - but no sign of a refund. (Yet??)

I was kinda expecting a cheque - is this normal procedure nowadays...??

 

Sure, they need it to pay the bloke who's sending the bloody letters
out, I expect! I don't know why they don't scrap this tax malarky and
just shove a few coppers on the petrol price - that way no-one (much)
gets to dodge it!! Far better for vehicles to have to display some sort
of Insurance/MOT linked 'combo' disk, surely?

Anyway, thanks for that - it seems the refund will follow then.....

 

seconded

 

Similar in France, whereas in Switzerland they just come round and
take your plates and 'vehicle licence' away if you're not insured or
tested as required.

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Good ol' swiss ... nazi's with chocolate

 

Yes, my point also but of course that'd mean a few comfy Civil Servants
would get pushed out of a job...

 

Mais non. Here in Ireland there is no sign of a shortage of Civil
Servants in spite of the presence of an insurance disc on every
windscreen. So things are not as black as they seem - jobs for life
still exist in some parts of the world.

 

OK, you learn summat new everyday - if they can do the (*obviously*
sensible) insurance disk thing in Erin, how come we haven't got it...??

 

[snip]

They already do shove a few coppers on the petrol price..! Every bloody
week it seems sometimes. Can't see this govt scrapping the cash cow that
is the tax disc system.

Ivor

 

Rip Off Britain!!!!!

 

They haven't got rid of the tax disc in Ireland, it's in addition to
the insurance one.

HVB

 

Why not? Eliminate all the admin costs, printing, postage, staffing and IT
overhead involved in running a separate tax disc and you save several
million a year. Put a few pence on the cost of petrol and there's no way to
avoid paying it, unlike the hundreds of thousands of people who dodge car
tax.

 

Stoopid boy, it provides work (1) for uncivil servants

(1) term used loosely

 

Ah, OK...

(Figures....)

 

In a nutshell....

 

But you end up paying "road tax" for things that run
off petrol but would never touch a road, like your
lawnmower, hedge trimmer, chainsaw, racing bikes,
etc.

Oh, hang on...