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   From: steve@otolith.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message <8Stuf.19243$iz3.8952@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, d   
    writes   
      
   >I want the monitoring of vehicle movements simply because of the amount of   
   >taxes dodged by drivers.   
      
   Which taxes are those then?   
      
   Unattended ANPR will catch those people who declare their car SORN and   
   then use it on the road. Other than that, who is it going to catch?   
      
   It will not catch people who use an incorrectly registered car or one   
   with cloned plates; if you don't pull them over there and then, you've   
   lost them.   
      
   It is not needed to catch people who don't either tax or SORN their car;   
   it isn't necessary to prove that they have been driving their car to   
   prosecute them.   
      
   In any case most motoring tax is fuel duty. VED only raises around 5bn   
   and the annual loss to evasion is estimated to be a mere 147 million   
   [0]. The government estimates that benefit fraud costs around 2bn [1] a   
   year, a much larger loss to the treasury. If your sole concern is the   
   treasury's balance of payments, you must also support electronically   
   tagging all benefit claimants to ensure that they do not work illegally?   
      
   [0]   
   http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_transstats/documents/page/dft_t   
   ransstats_610095.hcsp   
   [1]   
   http://www.direct.gov.uk/Diol1/DoItOnline/DoItOnlineArticles/fs/en?CONTEN   
   T_ID=4017574&chk=a0TKSe   
      
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   Steve Walker   
      
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