- 1. taxes (score: 1)
- Author: R John Lye <rjl6n@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 95 06:51:23 EST
- Duncan Bryan sez: This is not so unusual on this side of the pond. Here they call it a "personal property tax" usually. Both Missouri (where I've lived recently) and Virginia (where I presently resid
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00152.html (7,514 bytes)
- 2. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 10:40:19 -0500 (EST)
- There may be a signficant difference. When I lived in Missouri, the personal property tax on a vehicle was based on its estimated value. They used blue book values, and you could argue with them (oft
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00157.html (9,170 bytes)
- 3. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 12:26:40 +0500
- Ray Gibbons writes (regarding taxes on autos in the U.S. and the U.K.): This is only a guess but I imagine one significant difference is that in the U.K. there isn't the same distinction between simp
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00161.html (9,747 bytes)
- 4. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: pgarside@acorn.co.uk (Paul Garside)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 12:17:22 GMT
- Will Zehring asked a UK Soler to confirm what he says about UK cars having a plate for life. They do (although you can swap it for a personal plate for a fee - my Jensen was first registered on a per
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00261.html (8,357 bytes)
- 5. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: pgarside@acorn.co.uk (Paul Garside)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 14:39:25 GMT
- Hi Bob, Yup, It's Value Added Tax. It is like a sales tax. Consumers pay it on most everything except food (excluding luxury food), children's clothes and books. Companies pay it on almost everything
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00268.html (7,696 bytes)
- 6. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: pgarside@acorn.co.uk (Paul Garside)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 15:13:08 GMT
- W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu> muses: I guess it is a question of police workload, resourcing and priorities. "When stopped and questioned, the defendant replied variously, m'lud, th
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00273.html (7,727 bytes)
- 7. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 16:02:24 +0000
- The Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency would have us believe that anything up to 30% or so of the vehicles on the road are untaxed. The problem is catching the present owner of the car. When a car i
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00277.html (7,766 bytes)
- 8. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 11:05:28 -0500
- I guess that you aren't including the constabulary around the U.S. military installations. ;O They seemed to take great pleasure on stopping the Yanks. My wife was stopped one Saturday in our Morris
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00278.html (9,762 bytes)
- 9. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: island@whidbey.net (Judith Winter)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 23:08:27 PST
- I was pulled over for "failing to go through a yellow light." (I was in a left-hand turning lane [left-hand-drive] with a clearly-yellow light. Had I proceeded to make the turn,there is no question
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00309.html (8,262 bytes)
- 10. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: pgarside@acorn.co.uk (Paul Garside)
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 09:48:51 GMT
- I guess muggings, crack murders and ram raiding are not the same problem in rural Suffolk as they are in London, Bristol, Manchester etc. (happily, I live there)- the police probably get bored! "Let
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00310.html (7,603 bytes)
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