Bag's Rants

DVLA a hidden tax and punishment.

As well as the cock ups routinely performed by the DVLA and the unknown thousands of pounds it extorts from bewildered people over the SORN and being ten minutes late for taxing your car while you are on holiday I discovered a new tax put on criminals.

Whilst looking for the fee for my daughter to get her provisional license I discovered that, currently, according to the leaflet INS115, and the website, the fee for a brand new license is £38. A renewal after disqualification is £50 and a renewal after drunk driving disqualification is £75. Why? It seems to me to be a further punishment on people who were banned. A tax on them that most people won't care about. They deserve it. What a rip off. It can't cost them any more to process it.

No wonder so many people are driving without tax and insurance.

Interestingly enough the spellchecker offered DEVIL for DVLA and Spam was an option for SORN. I'll not comment on that.

posted by Bag @ 10:36 pm