Historic EA licence fees

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I know I could ask the EA for this information but more fun to find out just how anal members of the forum can be !

I am trying to build a picture of licence fee increases over previous years - at least back to year 2000 but anything earlier would be a bonus.

If any of you can find evidence of the cost per square metre charge for particular years please post here.

For starters, this year is £17.42 and 2012 was £16.66
 
Just out of interest do any boats get a " free" licence of any description to due to age or historic distinction.ie the royal barge or dunkirk boats. ?
 
Err....,my point was that as all sorts of ways of getting in a few extra quid are being considered,there should be no exceptions.
Our club treasurer has recently mentioned that if we continued to give reduced membership rates to all and sundry over a certain age we were going skint V. fast.
 
Are vehicles belonging to RNLI,Coastguard,Police,ambulances and other emergency services exempt from having a road fund licence ?
 
oldgit said:
Are vehicles belonging to RNLI, Coastguard, Police, ambulances and other emergency services exempt from having a road fund licence ?
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Not sure but the Health and Safety Executive, Royal Parks, Railway Inspectorate and Nuclear Regulation Group are exempt. I would have thought the military are also exempt as Crown vehicles.
Why should groups set up to support boat users pay when they are providing you a service? Plus in some of these cases you are just moving money from one government department to another - robbing Peter to pay Paul!

CJL
 
Not getting much help with answers to my original request, am I ? :D

I have managed to find a registration form from 1999 when it would appear the price per square metre was £8.62.
The UK total inflation over the period 1999 to 2013 is 47 % which would lead to an equivalent current rate of £12.67

This year it is actually £17.42 - an increase of 102% over the 1999 rate. So, on average, over the last 13 years or so we have been paying annual increases in licence fees at slightly more than double the rate of inflation.
 
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CJL said:
Not sure but the Health and Safety Executive, Royal Parks, Railway Inspectorate and Nuclear Regulation Group are exempt. I would have thought the military are also exempt as Crown vehicles.
Why should groups set up to support boat users pay when they are providing you a service? Plus in some of these cases you are just moving money from one government department to another - robbing Peter to pay Paul!

CJL
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Hey Presto.

Various classes and uses of vehicle are provided with a tax disc without charge. These include: electrically propelled vehicles, vehicles constructed before 1973, trams, vehicles which cannot convey people, police vehicles, fire engines, ambulances and health service vehicles, mine rescue vehicles, lifeboat vehicles, certain road construction and maintenance vehicles, vehicles for disabled people, certain agricultural and land maintenance vehicles, road gritters and snow ploughs, vehicles undergoing statutory tests, vehicles imported by members of foreign armed forces, and crown vehicles.[10] It should be noted that although police vehicles are in fact crown vehicles and therefore exempt from the requirement for a tax disc, they generally display them regardless to suppress complaints from members of the public who might be stopped for failure to display a valid tax disc on their own vehicle, and thus make accusations of double-standards, no matter the lack of merit. Wikipedia.


Looking on the EA website there are no freebies but some hefty discounts of up to 75% for a butty.Still at least they charge something.
Shame the same does not apply on the roads and a charge made for caravans,about time they had a system for MOT as well.
 
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oldgit said:
Looking on the EA website there are no freebies but some hefty discounts of up to 75% for a butty.Still at least they charge something.
Shame the same does not apply on the roads and a charge made for caravans,about time they had a system for MOT as well.
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That would go down well with the pikeys:D
 
oldgit said:
Hey Presto.

Various classes and uses of vehicle are provided with a tax disc without charge. These include: electrically propelled vehicles, vehicles constructed before 1973, trams, vehicles which cannot convey people, police vehicles, fire engines, ambulances and health service vehicles, mine rescue vehicles, lifeboat vehicles, certain road construction and maintenance vehicles, vehicles for disabled people, certain agricultural and land maintenance vehicles, road gritters and snow ploughs, vehicles undergoing statutory tests, vehicles imported by members of foreign armed forces, and crown vehicles.[10] It should be noted that although police vehicles are in fact crown vehicles and therefore exempt from the requirement for a tax disc, they generally display them regardless to suppress complaints from members of the public who might be stopped for failure to display a valid tax disc on their own vehicle, and thus make accusations of double-standards, no matter the lack of merit. Wikipedia.


Looking on the EA website there are no freebies but some hefty discounts of up to 75% for a butty.Still at least they charge something.
Shame the same does not apply on the roads and a charge made for caravans,about time they had a system for MOT as well.
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and bicycles,tax insurance etc
 
I think the two old Thames Valley Police boats were licensed, I seem to vaguely remember them being accidentally unlicensed until late January one year.
 
boatone said:
I know I could ask the EA for this information but more fun to find out just how anal members of the forum can be !

I am trying to build a picture of licence fee increases over previous years - at least back to year 2000 but anything earlier would be a bonus.

If any of you can find evidence of the cost per square metre charge for particular years please post here.

For starters, this year is £17.42 and 2012 was £16.66
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Not a direct answer to your question (apart from perhaps the 'anal' bit!) but here is a schedule of the percentage increases in EA licence fees on Anglian Waterways since they took over in 1996. I imagine the Thames annual increases would be the same. In brackets are the corresponding Bank of England RPI figures for each year.

1997 + 3.5% (3.1%)
1998 + 3.5% (3.4%)
1999 + 3.0% (1.5%)
2000 + 3.5% (3.0%)
2001 + 2.4% (1.8%)
2002 + 2.5% (1.7%)
2003 + 2.6% (2.9%)
2004 + 4.5% (3.0%)
2005 + 5.5% (2.8%)
2006 + 6.9% (3.2%)
2007 +12.0% (4.3%)
2008 +11.5% (4.0%)
2009 + 7.8% (-0.5%)
2010 + 3.3% (4.6%)
2011 + 0.0% (5.2%)
2012 + 6.4% (3.2%)

The Bank of England RPI shows an overall 58.99% increase over the period.
The EA Navigation licence fee shows an overall increase of 120.22% over the period.
 
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