Car Tax

[jollygreen]

OK, I live out in the country, in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands. The area regularly gets snowed in during the winter and the roads are rarely gritted in bad weather.

So I do actually need a 4x4. So why do I get tarred with the same chelsea-tractor car tax?

Would it be that difficult to administer a system based on postcode as well as emissions for car tax? So that those of us who live in very rural areas and require a practical vehicle aren't punished because of people who drive Range Rovers and live in cities?

And while I'm on my soapbox, why do I have to pay the same council tax rates when I don't have mains water or sewage and only get my bins collected once a fortnight??!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[jonnythebosh]

Since when has this government been fair and rational? If you are in work, paying your taxes, law abiding and a valuable member of society then you are seen as a mark by this shower. Take my advice, go on the sick, turn to crime and disown all notion of decent standards of behaviour and you will get all you want on the state. But remember to vote Labour.

[reinganum]

This government (more than any other previous govt.) really doesn't like people living in the country; it's untidy. They can only get their heads round living in towns. After all, nearly all of them live in London or other big cities and they have a completely urban mindset. And to be completely cynical, very few of their votes come from rural areas (but curiously this has never been the case in Scotland where Labour has frequently won rural seats).

But this lot are completely metropolitan in outlook, and
that's what you're fighting against.