just got my road tax reminder

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

pay up front 6 months £93.50 one year £170

direct debit monthly £178.50 [£14.88 a month].... 6 months £89.25.... 12 months £170

how come six months DD is that price?

[fred]

Because you are giving them access to your bank account. And then the b******s charge extra if you use a credit card

[Mark Carver]

Only if it's a business credit card. Personal ones have no surcharge (unless that law vanished with Brexit ?)

[Dave Plowman (News]

The DVLA did used to charge extra if you paid by credit card. But not by debit card. I think that has gone now.

Did wonder if credit cards has reduced their fees to the seller? With Covid, many places that once would only take cash for a small amount now take them.

[Fredxx]

Many government websites (HMRC as an example) now won't take credit and debit card payment unless it's a business card, where they can still apply a surcharge.

[Mark Carver]

Maybe, but I recently (a couple of weeks ago) paid road tax, and for a new passport with my credit card.

[alan_m]

+1 Recently driving licence renewal and road tax paid by my CC

[bert]

In article <s9sfki$s6b$ [e-mail], Jim GM4DHJ ... [e-mail] writes

Just got mine - £600 for a diesel Land Rover Defender. If I'd kept my petrol 4 litre V8 doing about 11mpg it would have been about £250. Roll on road pricing, I do less than 6k miles pa in it.

[bert]

In article [e-mail]>, "Dave Plowman (News)" [e-mail]> writes

If you don't like cc charges just try paying for something by bitcoin. The fees appear from nowhere, the value is up and down like a yoyo and you are working to 8 places after the decimal point so you really have no concept of the value of the lower places.

[Fredxx]

Of course 4x4 pickups are taxed as a commercial vehicle, currently a flat rate.