Failure to display a tax disc can result in a fine, and failure to pay for motor tax can result in further fines or prosecution.
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Confusingly though, parts of the UK government refer to these as'Light Goods Vehicles'( also abbreviated'LGV'), with the term'LGV'appearing on tax discs for these smaller vehicles.
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The government also announced it would propose a tax disc system that would impose higher charges on foreign trucks operating in Britain, but Brown gave no details.
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Similar systems exist in some other countries, such as in Ireland, but the use of automatic number plate recognition has rendered tax discs redundant in the United Kingdom.
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The Swiss road network is funded by road tax disc-which costs 40 Swiss francs-for one calendar year in order to use its roadways, for both passenger cars and trucks.
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A tax disc was a circular certificate that vehicle owners had to place on the front windscreen of road vehicles, as visual proof that vehicle tax has been paid.
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Between 1920 and 1936 the vehicle licence ( tax disc ) was officially known as the " Road Fund Licence ", a term which is still in colloquial use today.
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Floyd Jarrett, whose home was about a mile from the Farm, was arrested by police on 5 October 1985, having given false details when stopped with an allegedly false tax disc.
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Once tax is paid, the vehicle owner receives a motor tax disc which is required by law be displayed on the vehicle ( usually on the front windscreen where available, along with insurance and NCT discs where required ).
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He exposed the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency for raking in over ?m a year in revenue sharing arrangements with telephone companies, where callers paid over the odds while waiting to book driving tests and sort out tax discs.
