{"id":9730,"date":"2014-07-07T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/the-motorist-always-pays\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T10:09:48","slug":"the-motorist-always-pays","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/april-1961\/61\/the-motorist-always-pays\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Motorist Always Pays&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir,<\/p>\n<p>Just another instance on how the motorist is fleeced. I turned in my four-monthly licence at the end of December as I am doing a major overhaul. A month later I get my refund, not as may be expected one quarter of what I paid but an amount calculated on one twelfth of the annual duty. The difference is small, viz. I received \u00a31 0s. 10d. instead of quarter of&nbsp;\u00a34 12s.0d.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote to the County Council but they informed me it is correct. So the motorist now pays higher in the new four-monthly period than he did in the old three-monthly periods and, in addition, when a refund is made it is not even calculated on the original amount he has paid.<\/p>\n<p>I am, Yours, etc., R.J. Williams. Rogerstone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;[Let us hope the Chancellor will bear in mind, when he introduces his Budget later this month, that motorists are one of the most savagely-taxed members of a community which has the dubious privilege of being the most heavily-taxed nation in the peace-time history of the free world.\u2014Ed]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,23449,190,52739],"issue_decade":[121587],"issue_year":[121623],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/9730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/9730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268064,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/9730\/revisions\/268064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=9730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}