I've just renewed my Road Tax and put £190 into Gordon's pocket.
The only redeeming feature is you can do it via the internet instead of queuing at the Post Office.
Even then if you pay by Credit Card they charge you £2.50. Debit cards (which I used) are free.
The £2.50 charge for Credit Cards came about following a 'Public Consultation'. Oh yeah!! Who with? Certainly not me....or anyone I know.

You cannot win as a car owner/user. Car repairs. Car Tax. MOT. Servicing. Spiralling petrol ! and yet we can't do without them.
I sometimes wonder how we ever afforded to run 2 cars, not so many years ago!

Petrol is actually falling (87p a litre) around here but yes with the demise of the Post Office (only selected branches now do Road Tax) profiteering is inevitable. I think credit card companies take 5% in fees (debit card companies 3%). But remember we have a service based eccomomy these days and all these middlemen must be kept in work!

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My car is a 1.1 litre model which qualifies for the low Road Fund Tax rate. To be honest where there are only two of us using the car at any one time my Peugeot 106 fills the bill. My m.p.g. is always above 45 miles/gallon and it will cruise on the Motorway at 80 mph with no trouble. All in all, considering the way Road Fund Tax, it used to be Road Tax when it was used to maintain roads, has rocketed along with Insurance and Fuel prices my little car is a bargain.

However, it is right to say that the motorist is an easy touch for Road Fund Tax, Fuel Charges, MOT hikes, Speeding Fines and the ubiquitous Traffic Wardens and Clamping Organisations. Sheffield is notorious for so called traffic calming measures, one way systems and a road system which pushes yopu, willy-nilly, on to the Ring Road and then towards the M1. Various communities in the City keep wanting more Road Calming, read speed bumps, and call short cuts which go through their areas "rat runs". If I am a "rat" then what does that make them? Answers or suggestions welcomed.

I can remember when I first had a car, Road Tax, as it was then, was £12/10/-. (£12.50) for the year, and my Insurance was about £40/-/- (£40.00) for the same period. The MOT hadn't been thought of and Traffic Wardens were a "Big Brother" addition of the future. Petrol was 4/7d (£0.20.5) for a gallon of Four Star (leaded). Esso Petroleum were two years away from introducing their "Put a Tiger in your Tank" advertising campaign complete with cloth Tiger Tails to hang on your wing mirror. Mine went onto the filler cap of my car which was located under the nearside rear light cluster - much merriment from following motorists. Oh - I nearly forgot, my first car a Peuogeot 403 cost me £450 second hand.

There you go Escafeldia!

That's the one Jezer!! Only mine was Antelope Beige with a registration No. 476 CYL. The engine was a four cylinder, in line, 1500cc with an Aluminium Cylinder Head and a cross Head Fuel Flow. The Electrics were !2 Volt Ducellier with Marachel Headlights which could be adjusted, on the headlight, for LH Drive or RH drive. The front suspension was a transverse leaf spring with refillable shock absorbers and the Differential was an Underslung Worm Drive. All the bright trim was Stainless Steel and the tyres were Michelin "X" - 14 inch. :thumbsup

Sewers?

NIMBY's

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more polite and more appropriate

I'm intrigued by the can do it online car tax, wondering IF I can do that from PT? Mine is still a British reg car as I always change it in UK. What do I need to supply? A x