Tax disk holder

[Malcolm G]

I used to have a car parking permit that was made to fix a tax disk holder.

[Muddymike]

Just noticed there are still 100s of tax disk holders for sale on Ebay.

What other use can they have?

Mike

[Ian Jackson]

Indeed, some tax disc holders have two pockets for this very purpose.

[Nick]

Quite good for sticking to windows as a bird battering deterrent. Stick to bathroom cabinet as a razor holder. Nipple adornments if you're that way inclined. Stick to fridge for holding non-magnetic items. The possibilities are endless. ;) Nick.

[tim.....]

I asked my MA if they could supply such permits in this format (for future years)

my request was ignored (useless bastards - sticking it on with sticky tape/blutac was a right PITA)

How hard is it to do this?

tim

[Brian Gaff]

No idea, but the removal of the tax disc must surely impact the number of people being found out avoiding the payments. In the old days ordinary members of thepublic could report cars for no tax or out of date ones. Not any more.

Brian

[John Williamson]

The point is that nowadays, any ANPR rated camera ( 5000 of them at fixed locations and rising every week.) can be programmed to check with the DVLA database and report an untaxed car passing it with a very good success rate.

The Met Police have a number of cars labelled as "ANPR interceptors" which spend a lot of time just cruising round. I assume other forces are doing similar.

I don't think that many members of the public report untaxed cars nowadays unless they've got a grudge against the owner.

[Adrian]

DVLA already know when a car is untaxed but insured, an illegal situation, and issue the registered keeper a fine.

In addition, not being fined just for having your car untaxed is a "sin of commission" (in that you've actively declared that it's off the road) rather than a simple "sin of omission" (oops, I forgot) - for those who'd previously "forget" a month or two of tax, that's crossing a moral line, as well as a financial one because the penalties are higher than the rewards. It's not WORTH simply delaying taxing a car for a month or two.

If the car's uninsured and in use, then that's a FAR more serious situation than whether it's taxed or not.

DVLA have said that the visual tax disc catches virtually nobody. I'm not surprised. Apart from anything else, it's piss easy to forge in this digital era. Yes, it can easily and quickly be checked for genuine validity, but why can't that just be done on the plate without needing the round piece of paper...?

[Nightjar]

The latest estimate is 8,000, not including those in car parks, which could, in theory, also be linked into the database.

[Andrew Gabriel]

DVLA ran out of the security tax disc blanks at some printing facilities in August, and has printed some of the tax discs since then on ordinary paper anyway.

[Adrian]

Quite. It's amazing the faith that some people are suddenly putting in a small round piece of paper.

Back in the early '90s, I had my car roof slashed and the tax disc nicked (the fact the doors didn't even have locks fitted was obvious too subtle a clue for the scrotes involved). I got a replacement through DVLA - a few quid. When the stolen one expired, the new one was nicked out of the car on the first night it was in there. A few months later, the local police got in contact - they'd found it. It'd been edited - both marque and registration changed - yet still didn't match the car it was actually in. The driver escaped prosecution, because she claimed she "didn't know"...

[Adrian]

Bod might be interested to know this was just off Parlaunt Road.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Brian Gaff has brought this to us :

Yes you can, all you need is the registration number and the make of the vehicle -

You can also check whether it is insured here -

[bert]

More likely to report cars that have been dumped or parked for a very long time in an inconvenient place.

[bert]

Or more likely because she had big t*ts and shagged the officer involved. Since when was "didn't know" a legitimate defence?

[Andy Burns]

Only if you lie and say the vehicle is yours (or you have some other valid reason to know).

[ARW]

I think I will still use my tax disc holder to tell me when the MOT is due.

I often renew it early and lose a couple of months on it to save money if the van is already having some work done on it.