" Tax slur retracted "
BARELY three weeks ago the House of Commons
Public Accounts Committee claimed, in a very well-publicised report, that nearly
40 per cent of motorcyclists were evading the payment of vehicle excise duty (VED).
Now, in a remarkable and embarrassing turnaround, the latest Department for
Transport (DfT) report on VED in 2007 estimates that a more believable 6.5 per
cent of motorcyclists evade VED.
David Taylor, chief executive of the Motor
Cycle Industry Association (MCIA) said: "The motorcycle industry has said for
years that the methods of calculating VED evasion were deeply flawed, but we
have been consistently ignored. In fact, we still say that the methodology is
wrong.
"Although the latest figures are more
believable, it's only the way data is collected that's changed."
He continued: "The DfT should be embarrassed
and should apologise to the vast majority of powered two wheeler (PTW) riders
who clearly do pay VED."
In recent years the DfT has claimed that
anything up to half of all PTW users are evading road tax.
Now PTW users have been largely vindicated by
the release of findings from the latest 2007 DfT survey.
The results, based on detailed photographic (ANPR)
analysis of the vehicles surveyed, rather than the previous reliance on the
jottings of people sat at the roadside, shows that only 6.5 per cent of PTWs
seen on the road did not appear on the DVLA's record of taxed vehicles.
The increased use of ANPR reveals that the
number of motorcycles evading payment could be just one-third of the figure
previously claimed by DfT while the revenue lost from non-payment has been just
one-fifth of the amount DVLA have consequently been trying to chase.
An independent report commissioned by DfT in
2007 identified several problems with the estimate of evasion among PTWs, but
the investigation was discontinued by DfT before concerns could be addressed.
The MCIA and other motorcycle organisations
have challenged the DfT figures for many years, yet both the National Audit
Office and House of Commons Public Accounts Committee have recently accepted the
results without giving adequate consideration to their accuracy and validity,
finding it all too easy to publicly criticise PTW users as being likely to evade
VED payment.
As well as unfairly maligning PTW users, the
pressure on DVLA to tackle a far higher level of evasion than actually exists
means that large amounts of public money have been spent chasing revenue that
was never being lost.
David Taylor finished by stating: "There will
always be a small minority of PTW users evading road tax and, as with the far
higher number of car tax evaders, this should not be tolerated by those who do
pay."
Source: [ thisisbasingstoke ]
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