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Club G40 => General Chat => Topic started by: Jezza-7 on April 06, 2012, 09:36:11 am

Title: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: Jezza-7 on April 06, 2012, 09:36:11 am

One day, if this works, our cars might be tax exempt

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/183

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: dub-disaster on April 06, 2012, 10:41:41 am

I have signed the e-petition only another 8 year and we may be counted as classics !!!

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: randombadger69 on April 06, 2012, 12:13:30 pm

Signed this. 18,000 people out of how many million? Percentage-wise, the government aren't gonna even notice unless its well into the 100k's.

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: Jezza-7 on April 06, 2012, 05:52:44 pm

Then they shoudnt notice the drop in tax.  ;)

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: dub-disaster on April 06, 2012, 09:12:29 pm

lol wouldnt mind paying the tax if they fixed the roads once in a while !!

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: Jezza-7 on April 07, 2012, 01:07:45 am

yeah to bloody right!

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: type-r-dunk on April 07, 2012, 10:28:45 am

Yep I have just signed it. Isn't there a set number on a pertition when it is automatically raised in Parloment?
Dunx

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: randombadger69 on April 07, 2012, 10:06:35 pm

Quote from: Jezza-7 on April 06, 2012, 05:52:44 pm

Then they shoudnt notice the drop in tax.  ;)

Two sides to the coin. In order to get it noticed a large number is probably needed. Therefore the loss of admin fee's they scrape out of us will be missed, however thats only saying for instance 500,00 people agree that cars over 30 years old should be road tax fee exempt. Not 500,000 people have cars on the road over 30 years old!

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: scotsjohn on April 11, 2012, 04:10:33 pm

I can't remember the trigger figure off-hand but IE, at something like 100,000 signatures it supposedly gets parliamentary debate time. That is unless it's something like proportional representation or something similar that made them wish they'd kept their mouths shut about e-petitions in the first place.

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: Jezza-7 on April 11, 2012, 04:15:58 pm

Yep thats true.

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: hayesey on April 11, 2012, 04:27:30 pm

has anything actually ever been changed because of an e-petition?  I'm fully convinced that they aren't even getting looked at.  Just a way to make people feel like they are being listened to :)

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: scotsjohn on April 12, 2012, 12:26:51 pm

I tend to be cynical myself, but if you look at the top petitions ( fairfuel UK in there with 145,000) they are getting attention. The top performers are an interesting cross section however. I don't know when the idea took off, but ultimately you can get attention if enough folk shout. Just a slow grind to what might not get a result, but no point bitching if you can't spend a minute of your time to support something worthwhile. It will mean Jack Shit to me at my age, but look at the 70 million campaign and start scribbling; I have.

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: hayesey on April 12, 2012, 12:43:57 pm

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( fairfuel UK in there with 145,000) they are getting attention

there's a lot of noise yes, but the government are taking absolutely no notice of them what so ever as far as I can see.

but yes it's worth throwing your support behind them.  To fail to try is to try to fail :)

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: hayesey on April 12, 2012, 12:44:58 pm

p.s. I have signed the fair-fuel one, read all their emails and facebook group posts etc...

Title: Re: Restore a rolling 30 year-old exemption to VED, for classic vehicles
Post by: beatboxG40 on May 04, 2012, 06:34:55 am

signed :)