Sunday Times end "road tax" references

[PedalCat]

Yes, they now refer to "vehicle tax band" rather than "road tax band" in their car reviews. It's taken a while. I expect I was one of many when I asked them last July to stop it.
Expect it to take another 152 years for the truth to trickle down to the intellectually challenged types who lean on "road tax" as a justification for cowardly bullying.

 

[glenn forger]

It's usually used by unpleasant idiots.

 

[glenn forger]

The cycling column was good yesterday, the rider explained that with his earphones in ambient noise was reduced to seventy decibels. Drivers hear fifty.

 

[spen666]

[QUOTE 2895767, member: 30090"]What's wrong with the term road tax? I quite like it.[/quote]
a) it doesn't pay for the road - it goees to central pot of government money
b) it is a tax paid on the emissions of your vehicle
c) Road Tax was abolished in 1936 to prevent , as Winston Churchill said, - motorists thinking they owned the roads

 

[ianrauk]

a) it doesn't pay for the road - it goees to central pot of government money
b) it is a tax paid on the emissions of your vehicle
c) Road Tax was abolished in 1936 to prevent , as Winston Churchill said, - motorists thinking they owned the roads

Beano knows that of course...

 

[rich p]

[QUOTE 2895780, member: 30090"]Usually - not me then?[/quote]
So by implication, beano old bean, you're trying to convince us that you're not an unpleasant idiot?

 

[Maylian]

Yes, they now refer to "vehicle tax band" rather than "road tax band" in their car reviews. It's taken a while. I expect I was one of many when I asked them last July to stop it.
Expect it to take another 152 years for the truth to trickle down to the intellectually challenged types who lean on "road tax" as a justification for cowardly bullying.

Surely by that logic you'd expect intellectually challenged people to be reading the times? If they plastered it across some womans chest in the mirror you might have a chance of getting through to the kind of people that need to know....

 

[PK99]

"Road tax" remains a useful short hand - almost all countries have a "road tax" that must be paid to use car on the public roads. All call it by various names and apply it in various ways, exempting some vehicles in some countries

 

[PedalCat]

Surely by that logic you'd expect intellectually challenged people to be reading the times? If they plastered it across some womans chest in the mirror you might have a chance of getting through to the kind of people that need to know....

Hence the 152 years for the info to trickle down to them (via various routes).

"Road tax" remains a useful short hand - almost all countries have a "road tax" that must be paid to use car on the public roads. All call it by various names and apply it in various ways, exempting some vehicles in some countries

Useful shorthand? Convenient maybe. The "it is road tax coz you have to pay it to drive on the roads" argument might similarly- and inaccurately- be applied to insurance. The point is to avoid the term because it reinforces a common and dangerous misconception.

 

[Leaway2]

as Winston Churchill said, - motorists thinking they owned the roads

how did that turn out then?