From: NM on
On 24 June, 14:03, Silk <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> On 24/06/2010 14:01, Man at B&Q wrote:
>
> > On Jun 24, 11:53 am, Silk<m...(a)privacy.net>  wrote:
>
> >> I don't like paying tax any more than anyone else. That's why I got a
> >> car in a lower band, so I only pay 35 quid a year.
>
> > SWMBOs has just gone down to £30!
>
> I haven't looked at the details of the budget yet. Mine may have also
> gone down.

Don't you get a handout for running a Skoda?
From: Nick Finnigan on
NM wrote:
> On 24 June, 19:05, Nick Finnigan <n...(a)genie.co.uk> wrote:
>> You get 30 days grace in England too (except in February).
>> And you don't have to produce a lot of paperwork.
>
> How? No prepayment = no tax disc. Unless it's changed and no body told
> me.

No prepayment, no new tax disk, no problem for 30 days.

> You need to have paperwork unless it's a routine transaction with no
> changes.

You need a tiny 'new keeper' piece of paper to make a change, not 'a lot'.
From: NM on
On 26 June, 09:43, Nick Finnigan <n...(a)genie.co.uk> wrote:
> NM wrote:
> > On 24 June, 19:05, Nick Finnigan <n...(a)genie.co.uk> wrote:
> >>   You get 30 days grace in England too (except in February).
> >> And you don't have to produce a lot of paperwork.
>
> > How? No prepayment = no tax disc. Unless it's changed and no body told
> > me.
>
>   No prepayment, no new tax disk, no problem for 30 days.
>
> > You need to have paperwork unless it's a routine transaction with no
> > changes.
>
>   You need a tiny 'new keeper' piece of paper to make a change, not 'a lot'.

I don't understand why people here are defending the UK system, it's
archaeic, inflexible and a pain to use other than for straight
foreward transactions involving no changes, still if you like being
fucked around and paying up front then go for it, I know which system
I prefer.
From: Nick Finnigan on
NM wrote:
>
> I don't understand why people here are defending the UK system, it's
> archaeic, inflexible and a pain to use other than for straight

Remind us of the Dutch system for buying a car would you?
From: Silk on
On 26/06/2010 01:59, NM wrote:
> On 24 June, 12:28, bod<bodro...(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> Silk wrote:
>>> On 24/06/2010 12:12, The Peeler wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:53:36 +0100, Silk<m...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>> I don't like paying tax any more than anyone else. That's why I got a
>>>>> car in a lower band, so I only pay 35 quid a year. If you can't afford
>>>>> 35 quid, you can't afford to maintain a car in good order.
>>
>>>> A cheap pikey car, you mean?
>>
>>> How we laughed.
>>
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Just paid mine...�245.
>>
>> Bod
>
> So did I, it was a real struggle to find zero in one lump.

Does this mean you're "disabled"?