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Orcade-Ian:
Just taxed the Wing today for 1st May - £96 (our Honda Jazz is £30) Anyway, there is a feedback/comments box which is probably never even looked at but I thought I'd have a rant anyway.  Complained about the fact that they charge buyer and seller for the same thing at change of ownership - if I tried that, say on eBay, it would be called fraud.  The other thing I outlined was the charging by the month rather than by the day as nearly every other organisation does - even council tax. Also if you declare Sorn with months left it applies immediately, so again you have paid for something you are then not allowed to use.  If you are declaring Sorn with no complete months left, it can be done from the end of the month.  We know it's done in their hope that folk forget and suddenly realise a new month has started that they will now lose.

If we sit on our hands and say nothing, it will definitely not change.

Ian

matthewmosse:
It's a money making machine, political pressure though your mp or court action might get some movement, it was someone standing up to them in court over scorn fines that got the automatic sorn fine changed. They basically took a freedom of info request on how many letters dvla lost internally and the courts then found that a system that automatically fined us as soon as a sorn isn't done on time wasn't legal, now we get a reminder to sorn. Dvla can be a beurocratic nightmare and the system won't change unless they are forced, if you can get to talk to the staff they can be ok.

cooleronthecoast:
I'd be up for a petition, but I doubt it would do any good.  I'm the same as you, my car, a 160 bhp Beemer costs just £30 a year to tax. All my bikes are over 600cc so as you say it costs £96 a year now to tax each one and I can't ride them all at once!  I think there should be another intermediate group for bikes between 600 and 999cc.  I have a 175 bhp 1077cc Aprilia and yet someone with a 47bhp Enfield Interceptor pays the same road tax as me.  A level playing field is needed methinks.

SumpMagnet:
Cars are taxed based on emissions.....which is fine by me.

Bikes are taxed on loose engine sized groupings. Which is out dated and frankly dumb.

hairygit:
Problem is bikes make up less than 1% of road traffic in the UK, (but account for 30% of road fatalities according to insurers) so we are the minority on the roads. Which is why successive governments have got away with screwing us over. Road tax used to be about how much damage vehicles did to the roads, which is why HGVs get stung for thousands each year, but bikes do not damage the roads, so really they should all be tax exempt. Truth is we Are a minority, governments know that, so we will always get stung because the votes they risk losing are negligible, but they make 3 times what some cars pay for road tax from us, and we can shout and stamp our feet, but won't be heard.

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