DVLA lost out on £93million a year after abolition of tax disc amid fears evasion...

[AtW]

"Revenue from vehicle excise duty fell by £93 million in the year after the abolition of the paper tax disc, official figures show.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) annual report and accounts show that revenue from vehicle tax fell from £6.023 billion in 2014/15 to £5.930 billion the following year.

Motoring organisation the RAC described the figure as "a significant sum" that merits further investigation, amid fears that vehicle tax evasion has increased.

When the paper disc was ended in October 2014, the Government said it would eventually save the DVLA around £7 million a year.

A Department for Transport survey conducted in June last year revealed that the number of motorists failing to pay vehicle excise duty (VED) had more than doubled since the end of the paper disc."

DVLA lost out on £93million a year after abolition of tax disc amid fears evasion has risen

Six fooking BILLION pounds revenue and they wanted to save £7 mln?!?!?! I demand my paper disk for £530 VED

[northernladuk]

I guess there is a business case for getting a private company(s) to run number plate recognition there then surely?

[AtW]

I guess there is a business case for getting a private company(s) to run number plate recognition there then surely?

It would have been a lot cheaper to get free app for mobile phones to allow people find cars with fake/missing tax disks like they do with pokemons now and then collect nice cash reward.

Simples.

[northernladuk]

It would have been a lot cheaper to get free app for mobile phones to allow people find cars with fake/missing tax disks like they do with pokemons now and then collect nice cash reward.

Simples.

LOL That's brilliant...

But surely they know which vehicles were taxed the year before and which are now not taxed. Also list the vehicles shown on the road but not SORN'd? I thought big data was supposed to help in situations like this?

[AtW]

But surely they know which vehicles were taxed the year before and which are now not taxed. Also list the vehicles shown on the road but not SORN'd? I thought big data was supposed to help in situations like this?

The contract to track vehicles is most likely with the private company which would not be interested in crowd sourcing this data - with paper disk missing in vehicle or of wrong year it would be trivial tor attract attention, plenty of people would have snapped the car on public road, uploaded the file and voila - get cash reward, that would have become far bigger risk than rare DVLA cameras.

The bottom line planning to save £7 mln on revenue of £6 bln, which would introduce MASSIVE OBVIOUS risks of evasion is totally cretious.

[vetran]

What a surprise

[original PM]

Is this actually because the police used to pull you if you did not have a tax disc...

But now no one has a tax disc and the police cannot be assed to check every vehicle's number plate?

So ultimately they are loosing revenue because lying scrotes are not taxing or insuring their cars..... - where does the problem actually lie?

[SueEllen]

It would have been a lot cheaper to get free app for mobile phones to allow people find cars with fake/missing tax disks like they do with pokemons now and then collect nice cash reward.

Simples.

Is that your next idea that will get you an OBE (or whatever)?

[VectraMan]

Is this actually because the police used to pull you if you did not have a tax disc...

But now no one has a tax disc and the police cannot be assed to check every vehicle's number plate?

The tax disc was only visible from the front, and it's hard to believe a police-person could visibly check the disc of an oncoming car. A computer could do it easily though, from the front or the back. Is this not what police cars are fitted with now?

I find it amazing that evaders believed in bobbies on the beat looking out for the right colour tax disc on cars, but don't believe in computers.

[LondonManc]

Another problem is that you can only catch honest mistakes - those forgetting to tax a car and finding out at the MOT station or when reinsuring for example.

It'll cost more in police time to recoup that money than it would to have kept printing the tax discs, that's for sure.