bicycle tax disc

[d000hg]

So, an efficient modern car can be exempt from tax due to low emissions. But bikes need to be taxed for the high amount of wear they cause the roads?

I love how this is being considered as part of a scheme to get more people cycling rather than driving.

EDIT: a tax stupidity we can't blame Labour for, Cyberman would have some comment about the Scots no doubt.

[bogeyman]

I must admit I do sometimes marvel at the freedom you have with bikes.

Forgive my old boy, but you seem to marvel at any kind of freedom we are still allowed.

Smoking, drinking, riding bikes, pedestrianism! Someone in government should ban these evils!

[badgerpig]

absolutely ludicrous!

so much for pushing green initiatives to reduce carbon emissions

it amazes me how they can release this garbage and keep a straight face,

wonder if a unicyclist would get a discount?

if it was'nt so laughable it would be sinister!

[BrilloPad]

Forgive my old boy, but you seem to marvel at any kind of freedom we are still allowed.

Smoking, drinking, riding bikes, pedestrianism! Someone in government should ban these evils!

Let alone the freedom to post on cuk.

[bogeyman]

Let alone the freedom to post on cuk.

I think Lord Mandelson is addressing that one.

[TimberWolf]

Are roller-skates exempt?

[scooterscot]

Depends if they are of the in-line type, they'd make a fortune with a toll in Hyde park...

[Zippy]

Depends if they are of the in-line type, they'd make a fortune with a toll in Hyde park...

And the barstewards frighten the horses

[Paddy]

I'm sure a pedestrian tax is somewhere on the New Labour agenda.

PC Plod: "are those shoes taxed and insured Sir?"

In the late nineties it was proposed by Labour to charge pedestrians for using city centre shopping streets. They were going to experiment with Oxford Street.

[DS23]

the latest is a tax on tax.

labour are proposing tax brackets where the higher your tax band the more you tax tax you need to pay.

the tories are doing the same only the other way around.