Interesting, how will they administer the scheme, Someone DVLA or another body will still need to keep records of who has paid the Excise fee. This may make watching the Autumn statement worth while. Or will it be another wheeze designed to save money that costs twice as much as the old system?
Hi Ian
It will be a list of who hasn't paid the fee checked against SORN files. Whats left over will be sent automatic fines in the post. The question I have to ask is which demeanor do you get done for, no tax disc or vehicle not SORN.
The costs of issuing tax discs must be quite considerable.
Traffic Master was one of the first commercial systems that applied number plate recongition software in it's roadside cameras to monitor traffic flow and speed. It read number plates at point A and looked for those number plates at point B. Once those cars past point B the distance and time were now available to work out average traffic speed. The police tried to piggyback this system to issue speeding fines. Traffic Master refused and the dept of Road Transport took them to court. Thankfully, the courts ruled in favour of Traffic Master.
Now a large portion of police cars have this technology, so if you get pulled over, they already know all your details before they invite you to sit in the back of their police car and talk things through.