tax disc bar code

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Sat 27 Jan 2007 09:48
tax disc bar code - milkyjoe
can someone expain why we have a bar code on the tax disc,is it owt to do with speed cameras or is it just for cops and traffic wardens to get some instant info?
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 10:17
tax disc bar code - Robin Reliant
I think it is just to allow the post office to scan it through their till.
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 10:33
tax disc bar code - Hamsafar
I agree, they do do that in the post office.
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 11:48
tax disc bar code - Armitage Shanks {p}
I think the parking nasties can use a bar code scanner on it as well - for what purpose I do not know.
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 12:30
tax disc bar code - LeePower
It may have something to do with checking the disc is attached to the car it was originally issued to, some kind of security feature against fake / copied / fiddled with tax discs.
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 14:32
tax disc bar code - Dynamic Dave

www.dvla.gov.uk/media/pdf/contacts/dvla_timeline.p...f

2003 - DVLA introduces the Barcoding All Relicensing Transactions (BART) system. Under BART, licensing information is passed electronically to DVLA from Post Office Ltd with records being updated within 2-4 days instead of up to six weeks under the previous paper system.

also www.nationalnumbers.co.uk/news/barcoded-tax-discs....m
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 15:49
tax disc bar code - martint123
Yes, it's only a barcode of the number that is printed at the top anyway. Speeds things up with manual processing and cuts down typing errors.
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 18:48
tax disc bar code - Cliff Pope
What about replacing number plates with giant stick-on bar codes, indicating reg no., tax paid, expiry date, MOT, insurance, etc? Then all "they" need to do is point a reader at the car and they would know all about us. Don't sheep and cattle have bar codes now?
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 18:51
tax disc bar code - martint123
Sheep and cattle have RFID tags certainly. There is also a trial of RFID'd numberplates and a manufacturer gearing up to make them in bulk. This, with the proposed reader in every lamppost would remove the need for GPS when road pricing comes in.
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 18:54
tax disc bar code - LeePower
You would have to make them easy for people / eyewitnesses to read if the car needs to be reported to police for any reason.
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 20:05
tax disc bar code - Manatee
You would have to make them easy for people / eyewitnesses
to read if the car needs to be reported to police
for any reason.


"Thin black, thin white, thick black, thin white...."
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 21:28
tax disc bar code - martint123
ROTFLMAO
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Sat 27 Jan 2007 22:52
tax disc bar code - Pugugly {P}
"Don't sheep and cattle have bar codes now"

Sheep have baah codes actually.


It's an admin thing, don't see the value of Police carrying readers. Tax details are stored on PNC now.
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