Road Tax
Well it seems that now the DVLA are sending out ÂŁ80 fines for people who have vehicles registered to them if those vehicles do not have road tax and have not sent in an SORN (Statutory Off Road Notice). Is this just a scheme for employing extra bureaucrats? Why don't they just do the sensible thing and apply road tax to petrol? That way you don't have to worry about cheaters because there can't be any! It is automatically an environmental tax, use more petrol - pay more tax. Instead of giving people a tax disc every year when they show their insurance certificate and MOT to the lady at the Post Office and get ripped off for the Road Fund License, the Post Office can issue MOT / Insurance discs.
The cost to the public purse of employing all those extra people to check on administering the road tax scheme goes away completely and we are left with a fairer, cheaper, better system.