Gov Car Tax won't accept Monzo?

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Hi Gergely & welcome :wave:

Iā€™ve had no problems setting up 2 Direct Debits for 2 vehicles using our Monzo Joint Account card.

Are you setting up a D/D or paying by card?

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Same but with Personal account, seems odd

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Same here.

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I renewed my Road Tax, albeit on a personal card (not joint), a few weeks ago and had no issues.

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Anyone else having a problem with this recently? It seems to be trying to load up 3D Secure, but then fails to a technical error screen.

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Iā€™ve done mine today without any problems. Their website was slow loading up the 3D secure, but it got there.

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3D secure can often fail due to local issues, at least I have anecdotally experienced this. Iā€™d recommend clearing cache etc and trying again.

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There is no such thing as road tax. Itā€™s a vehicle or emissions tax.

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There had to be one. :neutral_face:

The charge colloquially known as Road Tax.

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Good call, I tried Firefox instead of Chrome and it went straight through. Thanks.

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The pedants are revoltingā€¦

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Sadly itā€™s a colloquialism that makes the roads much more dangerous for vulnerable road users, as some who use the term road tax believe that they own the roads, and others who ā€œdonā€™t pay itā€ should get out of the way. Even Winston Churchill back in 1937 recognised this, hence abolishing the term back then. https://ipayroadtax.com

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I refer you to my earlier point about all road user groups being understanding towards others.

A person should not be vilified for using the term road tax. Unfortunately, some road user groups are fairly militant and itā€™s difficult to conduct a rational conversation with them.

Some motorist are entrenched in the view that they own the road, yes. Some cyclists are entrenched in their views. Both are us unhelpful as each other. As I said earlier, I donā€™t see it changing anytime soon.

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They shouldnā€™t be vilified, I agree. But they absolutely should be told that theyā€™re using a factually incorrect label and should stop.

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Itā€™s a colloquialism. And weā€™ve gone off topic.

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Good grief :expressionless:

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I have no idea why some people get so upset when they hear the term ā€œroad taxā€. As others have said, itā€™s a colloquialism and more people understand it than VED. Get a reality check, people, itā€™s certainly not offensive.

Or do you get upset when your partner writes you a note with a ā€œsharpieā€ asking you to ā€œhooverā€ the flat before you go ā€œjet skiingā€ with your mates. And also reminds you to use ā€œchapstickā€ so your lips donā€™t get chapped?

To stay on topic: I paid my road tax with Monzo on Monday and it went through without a hitch

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Itā€™s things like the Emma Way debacle where they clipped and injured a cyclist, then went on to tweet about cyclists not paying road tax. #Bloodycyclists Twitter post driver Emma Way guilty - BBC News

It matters as some people are being injured or killed due to the colloquialism.

Iā€™m not going to killed or injured by those, thus a non issue.

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You would get killed or injured by a car regardless of how the driver (or you) referred to tax :rofl:

This is all getting a bit silly now. Call it whatever you want people, it makes no difference what so ever and everyone knows what you mean regardless of the which terminology you use.

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People arenā€™t being killed or injured because of a colloquialism. They are being killed because of entitled drivers who think the road belongs to them because they own a big metal box on wheels. If not for the tax, they would just argue that theyā€™re in a big powerful car so why donā€™t cyclists watch out.

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