Comment on Rural drivers to face steepest bills under UK’s mileage-based electric vehicle tax

• Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  With this, you would potentially be double(or triple if you include road tax itself) dipping on tax though. You would be paying for milage + Irish tax on ‘fuel’ when filling up in Ireland.

  With petrol, you would be paying Irish tax filling up & driving there, not both.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe an offline GPS ringfenced mileage tracker to be reported at MOT. Only counts UK mileage, and tough to cheat.

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    • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can see that causing a proliferation of illegal GPS jammers.

      … And lots of stories about the government having gos trackers in all electric cars

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      • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Then opt-out of the tracker and pay based on raw odometer readings.

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