Why do we pay tax and insurance if both are legally required? Why not subsume one into the other...
Why so many uninsured drivers?
1). Maybe because some people can't afford insurance.
2). Because the odds of getting caught aren't too high.
3). Rebellious behaviour against authority and perceived inequality in society.
(I always have insurance myself, but I do understand some people not having it )
Subsume road tax into the cost of fuel. Extra 1 or 2c per litre. Simple.
Treated as cash cows by private enterprise as well. If I didn't know the alternate routes, visiting my brother & his family could have cost me €12.80 in tolls for the return journey. It's a struggle for me to keep my car on the road so avoiding tolls, parking charges, parking fines and speeding / driving fines are my priorities. The outrageous part for me is we pay for enforcement of the law but we don't get it if the 150,000 figure is correct.
Subsume road tax into the cost of fuel. Extra 1 or 2c per litre. Simple.
......I wrote to Sean Molony and the Minister's Office seeking clarification on a number of technical issues but have so far received no responses (surprise surprise). Neither Molony nor anyone in the Minister's office seem competent to comment on such matters as demonstrated by the article itself.
Data protection, EU waffle, interdepartmental demarcation, laziness, don't care, "not our job Boss".I can't beleive the people who designed the Motor Tax website set it up in such a way as to permit people to submit dummy numbers into the system and still renew their roadtax, its just facilitating those doing wrong....
Data protection, EU waffle, interdepartmental demarcation, laziness, don't care, "not our job Boss".
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