Motoring Discussion > On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days Tax / Insurance / Warranties
Thread Author: Falkirk Bairn Replies: 10
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 21:20 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - Falkirk Bairn
Tax Disc Site says:-

Our Electronic Tax and SORN service is temporarily unavailable due to enhancements currently being made to the system. These services will resume within 48hrs from 18:30 04/10/2011.

System upgrades are planned and done at weekends by Banks, Insurance Cos etc etc - downed late Saturday and up and running on a Sunday.................it could only be a Government body that could shutdown mid-week for 2 days...............

We were promised a better Civil Service aimed at reducing waste / being more efficient.......this is a Government Cash making machine - why close it down???
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 21:29 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - CGNorwich
this is a Government Cash making machine - why close it down???

Well they're not going to lose money are they. We won't be searching the web looking for an alternative tax collector.
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 21:38 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - commerdriver
Don't know what the upgrades are but I would have thought for this system, this has got to be the quietest time & therefore the best time to do any upgrade that needs system down time.

Any upgrade that needs 2 days shutdown is something very significant, I would expect it back up before the 48 hours.
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 21:47 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - Zero
they probably have a good handle on when peak demand is during the month, I should guess its a pretty sharp curve towards month end.
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 Tue 4 Oct 11 22:12 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - Stuartli
You also, IIRC, get five days' grace from the start of a new VED's status to cover any possible holdups.
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 Wed 5 Oct 11 07:14 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - Focusless
IIRC you can't apply online after your old one has actually expired ie. now is too late for this month.
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 Wed 5 Oct 11 12:00 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - Robin O'Reliant
>> Any upgrade that needs 2 days shutdown is something very significant,
>>
Oh dear...
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 Wed 5 Oct 11 09:18 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - Bromptonaut
>>it could only be a Government
>> body that could shutdown mid-week for 2 days...............
>>
>> We were promised a better Civil Service aimed at reducing waste / being more efficient.......this
>> is a Government Cash making machine - why close it down???

It might be 'badged' as government but I'm pretty certain its run by a private co - possibly Siemens.
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 Wed 5 Oct 11 14:29 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - Zero

>> It might be 'badged' as government but I'm pretty certain its run by a private
>> co - possibly Siemens.

Its IT is outsourced to IBM, most of it anyway.
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 Thu 6 Oct 11 14:51 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - commerdriver
I believe it came back up this morning, somebody with a car to tax might like to confirm this
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 Thu 6 Oct 11 16:16 
 On-line Road Tax - unavailable for 2 days - Bromptonaut
Trying to link through Direct.gov returns a technical error message.

Need to tax mine form 31/10 but not paying until October's salary is un the bank.
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