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so is it worth cancelling road tax on some cars next march and retaxing them to save cash. It could bring dvla to a crisis

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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy
“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

Of course it is worth it. It'll hasten the end of the 6-month tax disc of course.
It's worth (if you have a second car) sorn-ing the first/second for a month and then re-taxing it, just for the hell of it !

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I hope a lot of people do cancel and re-tax their cars. If we can get a significant amount of the nation's fleet all being taxed in the same month it's going to cause problems for the DVLA not just this year, but every year from now on

Next year the price increase will come a month earlier...

It is a good idea though, as long as you cancel it in enough time to get the pro-rata refund for the month. Imagine DVLA having to process that many cancellations and cheques, and then the re-taxes!

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And then they'll have a glut for one month, every year to come until the current fleet is all scrapped

I wish the UK motoring public could get organised enough to get everyone to do this. Nothing like a bit of legal civil disobedience.

Yeah, but we won't will we? We'll do our usual bit of piss-and-moan and we will cough up just the same. It's the British Way and the way in which we have been wallet-raped by successive governments all our lives. Let's face it, in two thousand years of history, we have managed a couple of rather good-natured Civil Wars. Our Boys entered the World Wars because the Government told them to.
Gordon Brown could crap in your wife's handbag and all you would do is give his back a dirty look as you held the door open for him to leave. In an ultimate show of Britishness, you would say "If he ever does that again, I've a jolly good mind to have a stern word with him - if he's free..."
Civil insurrection in this country? Not a bloody chance!

Edited to add:- And I am not one jot different from any of you!

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£200 is quite an incentive for even the british apathist.

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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy
“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

I had already planned to do this - surrender the tax discs for refund for both our cars at th end of January and re-tax them on the 1st of Feb. AFAIK the new rates kick-in in March '09 (can anyone confirm that?).

I reckon that'll save us about £300!

EDIT to add...

I've just done some research on this. Downloaded the budget statement (PDF here). The new rates/bands kick in on 1st April 2009 (page 121), but they've also sneaked in a killer on page 72 of the same report...

[quote = "robbing bastards"]Budget 2008 announces that vehicle excise duty (VED) refunds will be restricted to
the registered keeper of a vehicle and applicable only when a vehicle has: been stolen,
destroyed, sold or otherwise disposed of; become eligible for a nil licence; been declared as
statutorily off-the-road; or been permanently exported. This will help ensure that motorists
cannot avoid paying a pre-announced rate of VED.[/quote]

Elsewhere I have found out that the above rules will be implemented from 1st January 2009, so that has scuppered my original plan. So, I've concocted Plan B, which is to surrender both discs for refund at the end of this month and apply for two 6 month discs which will expire 1 month before the new rates kick in. It'll cost me an extra £21 but the saving will be nearly £300 net.