Road Tax

Rambo · 02-18-2007, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by From a different website

I don't know if everyone in the UK knows about this, but I received an email today regarding the proposed changes in road tax, and thought it would be worth passing the link on, if anyone would like to vote.

If you drive a car, please read -

Sarah Kennedy was talking about this proposed car tax scheme on Radio 2. Apparently there is only one month left to register your objection to the 'Pay As You Go' road tax.

The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody about it. Therefore at the time of Sarah's comments only 250,000 people had signed it and 750,000 signatures are required for the government to at least take any notice.

Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address, just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email with a link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the petition.

The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.

On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit in time you can probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly bill.

If you are concerned about this Orwellian plan and want to stop the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible. Sign up if you value your freedom and democratic rights -
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax

I read this from someone who doesn't even live in the UK (anymore), and felt quite stupid that I, as someone who lives in the UK, didn't even know about this...

So I thought I'd share this with everyone else. If you are concerned about this legislation, pass this around.

- Rambo.

Nevakonaza · 02-18-2007, 07:41 PM

Yeah apparently there putting everything up again....fuel prices,Road tax and basicly eveything else the goverment rips us off with.

Soon we wont be able to afford anything

Its all Gordon browns fault....its him that keeps rasing our taxes.

and that Pay As You Go' road tax thing is just rediculas.

Rambo · 02-18-2007, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Nevakonaza

and that Pay As You Go' road tax thing is just rediculas.

Sign the petition then!

Nevakonaza · 02-18-2007, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Rambo

Sign the petition then!

Ive been trying too....the page wont load for me.

All i get is...

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The connection has timed out
The server at petitions.pm.gov.uk is taking too long to respond.

Its a problem on my end though because my uncle has just Sign the petition on his comp at home and the page loaded ok on his

Il have to try later.

UltraDude · 02-18-2007, 11:10 PM

seen it yesterday

signed it yesterday

**dragon2309** · 02-19-2007, 12:46 AM

I don't know how old that thread is that you're quoting from but from the page im looking at there have been 1,588,147 signatures... that sounds a pretty big horn to the government i think. This type of thing will never catch on, ever, its complete invasion of privacy, and as the author above said, it's Orwellian in style, and damn right it is, its just not right

It's typical of our government, they jsut can't leave ANYTHING alone at all, name one thing they haven't tried to change in the past year.... go on... think....

dragon

UltraDude · 02-19-2007, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by dragon2309

It's typical of our government, they jsut can't leave ANYTHING alone at all, name one thing they haven't tried to change in the past year.... go on... think....

well that makes alot of sense

You can say that about everything every single year and in any country. I mean there not exactly going to say "I know lets not bother doing anything with education budget for a whole year". of course they have ivolve themselves in EVERYTHING. There a government, they run the country

OvenMaster · 02-19-2007, 04:42 PM

That's even been on TV here in the States. I think that whole concept is disgusting. Invasion of privacy as well as a horribly burdensome tax. You guys already pay enough in taxes. Everyone in the UK who's against this scheme has my admiration and support.

Nevakonaza · 02-19-2007, 04:45 PM

yay the site finaly worked for me today!

Ive sighned the petition and so has my uncle

Gonna get my dad to tell his work freinds about it too so hopefully they will sighn it.

Its gonna be realy expensive if Pay As You Go' road tax happens because my dad has to travel about 6 miles to and back from work everyday.

**apj101** · 02-19-2007, 04:50 PM

i signed the pertition a few days ago, never really thought of putting it on here

02-18-2007, 07:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
Nevakonaza Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Midlands,Uk Age: 20 Posts: 8,597	Yeah apparently there putting everything up again....fuel prices,Road tax and basicly eveything else the goverment rips us off with. Soon we wont be able to afford anything Its all Gordon browns fault....its him that keeps rasing our taxes. and that Pay As You Go' road tax thing is just rediculas. __________________ Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO @ 3.2Ghz-Asus Silent Knight II MSI P35 Neo-F (45nm Ready) V1.9 Bios Seagate Barracuda 250Gb Sata II Western Digital Caviar 400GB Sata II 4GB OCZ PC2-6400C5 Vista Gold Series @ 856 Mhz Asus Extreme 8800GT G92 512Mb with Glaciator cooler Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity 7.1 Sony 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-RAM SATA Icute Jet Turbine case blk (Modded) Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1\|Kaspersky IS 2009

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dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 20 Posts: 8,543	I don't know how old that thread is that you're quoting from but from the page im looking at there have been 1,588,147 signatures... that sounds a pretty big horn to the government i think. This type of thing will never catch on, ever, its complete invasion of privacy, and as the author above said, it's Orwellian in style, and damn right it is, its just not right It's typical of our government, they jsut can't leave ANYTHING alone at all, name one thing they haven't tried to change in the past year.... go on... think.... dragon __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

02-19-2007, 04:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
OvenMaster VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Red Sox Nation Age: 49 Posts: 2,033	That's even been on TV here in the States. I think that whole concept is disgusting. Invasion of privacy as well as a horribly burdensome tax. You guys already pay enough in taxes. Everyone in the UK who's against this scheme has my admiration and support. __________________ Frankenbox III: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ * MOBO: Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 * RAM: 2x1GB Kingston DDR2 667 HDD: WD 80GB Master, Seagate 320GB Slave * OPT: two Pioneer DVR-115DBK DVD burners PSU: Antec Basiq 500W * GPU: PNY GeForce FX5200 256MB AGP 8x * MON: ViewSonic LCD VA721 CASE: EvTek minitower * SND: Diamond Xtreme 5.1 * OS: XP Home SP2 * ROUTER: Linksys BEFSR41

02-19-2007, 04:45 PM	#9 (permalink)
Nevakonaza Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Midlands,Uk Age: 20 Posts: 8,597	yay the site finaly worked for me today! Ive sighned the petition and so has my uncle Gonna get my dad to tell his work freinds about it too so hopefully they will sighn it. Its gonna be realy expensive if Pay As You Go' road tax happens because my dad has to travel about 6 miles to and back from work everyday. __________________ Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO @ 3.2Ghz-Asus Silent Knight II MSI P35 Neo-F (45nm Ready) V1.9 Bios Seagate Barracuda 250Gb Sata II Western Digital Caviar 400GB Sata II 4GB OCZ PC2-6400C5 Vista Gold Series @ 856 Mhz Asus Extreme 8800GT G92 512Mb with Glaciator cooler Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity 7.1 Sony 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-RAM SATA Icute Jet Turbine case blk (Modded) Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1\|Kaspersky IS 2009

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