- Mar 17, 2007
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Recently my OH got a penalty notice from DVLA because he hadn't renewed his road tax. When he checked, it was overdue but we definitely had not got a reminder. So he rang up to pay up and said that he hadn't had a reminder. "Yes", said the operative, "we don't always send them out".
This is clearly the worst possible system. If They ALWAYSsend a reminder, you rely on this to prompt you, particularly now there are no tax discs. If they NEVER send reminders, then you make sure you have another system to pay on time. SOMETIMES sending reminders causes people to get it wrong. Conspiracy theorists would say it was a system to extract extra penalty payments.
Before anyone goes for preaching that it is the responsibility of the motorist to stay within the law, I accept accept all that; the point I am making is that human behaviour is elicited by the system it finds itself in, and the DVLA have generated the worst system for promoting compliance.
Mel
This is clearly the worst possible system. If They ALWAYSsend a reminder, you rely on this to prompt you, particularly now there are no tax discs. If they NEVER send reminders, then you make sure you have another system to pay on time. SOMETIMES sending reminders causes people to get it wrong. Conspiracy theorists would say it was a system to extract extra penalty payments.
Before anyone goes for preaching that it is the responsibility of the motorist to stay within the law, I accept accept all that; the point I am making is that human behaviour is elicited by the system it finds itself in, and the DVLA have generated the worst system for promoting compliance.
Mel