Drivers face €10 penalty for not paying car tax online

Our man in Havana

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=67099029#post67099029

watty wrote: »

Motor tax: Drivers face €10 penalty for not paying car tax online

Should Eamonn Ryan should pay it out of his own pocket for those unable to get broadband and suffering disconnections on the so called NBS?

It's several screens and if connection drops while you check your insurance or fiddle with wallet to get Credit card, you start over. With dropped connections on Mobile & Dialup you may also be unsure if you completed the transaction.


http://www.independent.ie/national-news/motor-tax-drivers-face-euro10-penalty-for-not-paying-car-tax-online-2270974.html

There is also concern for the Elderly and that this was being suggested at a time when the government's digital inclusion funding was coming to an end.
(though my Dad has better broadband than I and is 80 later this year).

This is madness. Considering certain people cannot tax online, eg where they have not sent a reminder as the reg owner has changed recently etc.

JHMEG

The most ridiculous thing is that local authorities spend a fortune on new offices during the boom, including fancy motor tax offices that they're not trying to discourage the public from using.

For real savings put the tax on fuel tax, and make the hundreds, if not thousands, of civil servants involved in its administration in 36 local authories redundant.

PrettyBoy

So I'll get a fine for paying my motor tax in the motor tax office?

Our man in Havana

PrettyBoy wrote: »

So I'll get a fine for paying my motor tax in the motor tax office?

Yes, if Ryan gets his way.

bmstuff

They can not force people to pay online and overcharge for not doing so, any court of law would throw that. Like no company can force you to pay by direct debit (Even if many companies here try to force you...).

If they were to give a 10 euro discount to encourage people to pay online, yes that would be more appropriate and will encourage people to pay through this means, helping them in the mean time to save money, even with a 10 euro discount.

unkel

JHMEG wrote: »

For real savings put the tax on fuel tax, and make the hundreds, if not thousands, of civil servants involved in its administration in 36 local authories redundant.

+1

The best way to tax is to do it efficiently, silently and to put someone else in charge of doing the collection for you (for free of course). Excise duty and VAT rock. Motor tax, tolls and other high admin cost taxes fail.

Our man in Havana

I just taxed my car yesterday which I purchased at the start of the month. It was still taxed to the end of July but of course I did not receive a reminder form to enable me to tax online because it takes them long enough to issue a new VRC. Result was that I had no choice but to go into a tax office to obtain a new tax disc. Why should I be penalised for this?

unkel

Haddockman wrote: »

I just taxed my car yesterday which I purchased at the start of the month. It was still taxed to the end of July but of course I did not receive a reminder form to enable me to tax online because it takes them long enough to issue a new VRC. Result was that I had no choice but to go into a tax office to obtain a new tax disc. Why should I be penalised for this?

You should have rung Shannon. They'd have sent out a form + pin within one or two days, enabling you to tax your car online. What's the hurry anyway if the car is still taxed till the end of the month?

Our man in Havana

unkel wrote: »

You should have rung Shannon. They'd have sent out a form + pin within one or two days, enabling you to tax your car online. What's the hurry anyway if the car is still taxed till the end of the month?

They had sent the form to the previous owner. My Dad told me.

I am not comfortable driving a car untaxed albeit for 2 days which includes a bank holiday.

Liam_Flag

It's not really gonna save money is it?

Even if it did work - we'd still be left with huge numbers of public service workers in those offices scratchin' their asses more than ever

Our man in Havana

I think I woke one of them up yesterday. The place was like a morgue.

djimi

bmstuff wrote: »

They can not force people to pay online and overcharge for not doing so, any court of law would throw that. Like no company can force you to pay by direct debit (Even if many companies here try to force you...).

If they were to give a 10 euro discount to encourage people to pay online, yes that would be more appropriate and will encourage people to pay through this means, helping them in the mean time to save money, even with a 10 euro discount.

This would be the way to go, and I presume was the intention behind it.