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End of the road for the ‘tax disc’
From October 2014 motorists
will no longer have to display
their road tax disc in the
windscreen of their vehicles.
Motorists will still be paying
Vehicle Excise Duty but the
Treasury claims there will
also be savings of £20m
for Britain’s hard-pressed
motorists as a result of
changes to the way car tax can
be paid.
The number of windscreens
checked for tax discs by officers
has dropped 75 per cent in the
last five years, thanks to the
electronic vehicle register that is
used by both traffic police and
the DVLA. A police source said:
‘the tax disc is no longer needed
for enforcement purposes;
the police use number plate
recognition equipment. If
they pull you over they can
immediately tap into this
database and see whether the
car is taxed and insured and
what the driver