New Style Tax Discs

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Thu 18 Dec 2003 15:46
New Style Tax Discs - Victorbox
Is it me or does anyone else think the new style UK car tax disc expiry dates that came in from September are more difficult to read than the old ones? The shiny gold numbers & letters may be more difficult to copy (I assume by computer scanning), but especially when behind a shiny plastic disc holder they seem to me to be more difficult to read. Not that the police or traffic wardens around here seem interested in the old style out of date ones anyway, unless they are having a special clamp down!
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Thu 18 Dec 2003 18:05
New Style Tax Discs - Honestjohn
The bar codes on the new tax discs can be scanned. So there should be fewere mistakes than before.

HJ
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Thu 18 Dec 2003 18:07
New Style Tax Discs - No Do$h
So there should be fewere mistakes than before.


LOL
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Thu 18 Dec 2003 18:17
New Style Tax Discs - Phil I
Not sure whether I prefer fewere or notsomenni. Pays your money and takes your pick.:-))
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Thu 18 Dec 2003 19:02
New Style Tax Discs - Imagos
yes defanitly harder to read.

a casual glance of the old style discs you could see the expiry date quite easily.

now much harder you really have to look much more closely,

not a step in right direction i dont think, a missed oppertunity.
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Thu 18 Dec 2003 19:17
New Style Tax Discs - John Shelton
The only purpose of the bar codes on the new VEL discs is at purchase time , typically in post offices, the sale of the new disc is registered by a bar code scanner and the data is sent to DVLA. The police do not in our area have any scanners for discs. Its just a new easier and more immediate way of confirming a valid disc has been issued.
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Thu 18 Dec 2003 21:40
New Style Tax Discs - Pugugly {P}
Well according to a DVLA circular that arrived at the Office a few months ago. Can't see why they should lie.
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Thu 18 Dec 2003 22:16
New Style Tax Discs - Sooty Tailpipes
They are creating a problem so that they can sell us the solution.......rfid spy chips in every vehicle. Now they are even musing about putting them in children in light of the recent disgustingly poor-taste media circus.
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Thu 18 Dec 2003 23:21
New Style Tax Discs - SteveH42
I don't think I got an answer to this last time, so I'll try again:

Why do some cars still get the old-style tax discs even though there are new-style ones going around that were issued earlier? Is it just a case of Post Offices using up old stock before they start on the new, or is there something else?

(I've seem vehicles taxed within the last month on old-style discs while the new style ones seem to have been out 3 or 4 months at least)
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Fri 19 Dec 2003 08:02
New Style Tax Discs - Dwight Van Driver
Just renewed mine for Jan 2004 (not going to get 80 extra quid off me) and saw the PO Clerk zap the renewal form bar code then the new Licence. She confirmed this married the two up for DVLC and electronic update would take place during the silent hours.

So if you get an old style licence it could be that the issuing office have not as yet the new technology.

DVD
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