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New Fri 13 Aug 10 22:51 
 history of the tax disc - Bellboy
www.virtualgaz.com/taxdiscspage.htm

it says though that 4 month tax discs were withdrawn in 1981?well i certainly dont remember these,does anyone else?
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New Fri 13 Aug 10 22:58 
 history of the tax disc - Robin O'Reliant
Yes, I remember them.

Handy if you were skint when the reminder came through.
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New Fri 13 Aug 10 23:29 
 history of the tax disc - bathtub tom
No comment!

I don't expect to hear from L'es either.
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New Sat 14 Aug 10 07:12 
 history of the tax disc - L'escargot
>> I don't expect to hear from L'es either.
>>

Wrong! I remember 4-month tax discs.
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New Sat 14 Aug 10 08:41 
 history of the tax disc - Soft Top
Yes, I can remember my father applying for one by post when the renewal date fell in a "difficult" month.

I also recall an uncle who had a scheme to try to mobilise all motorists to synchronise their tax disc renewals - and then refuse to pay. This was 40 odd years ago and the 4 month period made it a slightly less crack-pot idea than the 6 month period. I guess there was anger even then at the way the revenue was used...
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New Sat 14 Aug 10 08:51 
 history of the tax disc - Collos
The one cheaper than. the 4 month disc was the Guiness label
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New Sat 14 Aug 10 09:09 
 history of the tax disc - henry k
>> The one cheaper than. the 4 month disc was the Guiness label
>>
Re substitute tax disks.
A long while back, on a TV programme re traffic wardens, one of them said that most tax disk copies were usually easily detected as the did not have "little perforations round the edges.
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New Sat 14 Aug 10 10:52 
 history of the tax disc - Bellboy
little perforations round the edges.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>thought that was a tetley teabag ;-)
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New Mon 16 Aug 10 08:28 
 history of the tax disc - Cliff Pope
The perforations are presumably put there to make it easy to tear off the surrounding paperwork? So why do they actually do the opposite, ripping off chunks of paper on either side of the perforated line?
I never bother now with the frustrating process of trying to extricate the disc, I just use a pair of scissors.
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New Mon 16 Aug 10 12:11 
 history of the tax disc - Redviper
>> The perforations are presumably put there to make it easy to tear off the surrounding
>> paperwork? So why do they actually do the opposite, ripping off chunks of paper on
>> either side of the perforated line?
>> I never bother now with the frustrating process of trying to extricate the disc, I
>> just use a pair of scissors.
>>

Totaly Sympathise, I have never been able to extract a dich without tearing of chunks of it and on either side. I too now use scissors and cut round it.
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New Mon 16 Aug 10 12:20 
 history of the tax disc - Redviper
edit "Disc" not "Dich".
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New Mon 16 Aug 10 12:53 
 history of the tax disc - diddy1234
Maybe it is made that was to wind us up. After all paying for it is enough.
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