Car Tax

Having been a driver now for some ten or eleven years or so and having also owned a car of my own for some eight or nine years out of those, I have also had the misfortunes amongst other things of also having to pay car road tax for it just so that I can legally keep it out on the road. For those of you who may be ignorant to it, you need to have actual car insurance (which is something different yet again) in order to legally drive the car for any length of time - but now is not the time however, in order to go in to actual car insurance in itself as this is not the purpose of the review ... more

Tax is a set amount of money the govement needs to extract from its citizens to keep the country running, not a balanced and fair system of taking from the rich to give to the poor. Once, business and income tax was the way to get it, but always cost votes at election time, both main parties switching to the stealth tax method to make up the difference, hitting our vices and utilities, avoidable contributions for the rich and frugal. We know the bosses of those huge hedge-fund accounts avoid tax with ease in the City of London, paying less than their cleaners do in some cases, Brown and ... more

Tax, tax, tax, tax ooooooooooh noooooooo I hear you all saying ! I'll try not to be too long with my rant. Car tax or road tax used to be charged to maintain the roads for the vehicles that use it, it seems these days that the requirement has changed. The government seem to be focusing on reducing congestion by taxing us more and creating bands according to emission levels, since when has road maintenance got to do with emissions ? I don't know about you but I'm getting sick of hearing about it. The latest announcement by the Liberal Democrats on the 19th has fuelled me to post this, they plan ... more