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[_] HMRC this time (was RANT: DVLA Online Services)

anthony story anthony at junctionyk.co.uk
Fri Feb 1 08:23:24 GMT 2008

This time it's the tax return system which can't cope with demand - still
must be hard to cope with everyone leaving it to the last minute - (how many
underscorers are guilty?)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7219718.stm 

local boy, Adam Hart Davis (the face of the tax return) on radio this
morning saying the system must be simpler!

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Elliott [mailto:the1gadget at gmail.com] 
Sent: 31 January 2008 23:02
To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
Subject: Re: [_] RANT: DVLA Online Services,from the sublime to the
ridiculous...

Hi Andy

On Jan 31, 2008 1:16 PM, Andy Davies <dajdavies at gmail.com> wrote:

> <rant>
>
> Having used the DVLA online service to tax our cars a few times and
> being pleasnatly suprised at how simple and easy it was I decided to
> use their site to do the change of address on my driving license
>

Let me join you . DO NOT TRY TO USE FF ans it will time out. Why ?? IE is
OK..

-- 
David


> Big mistake, spent about ten minutes filling in the forms and get to
> the end of the process to find I get a nice pdf document to print off
> and send in along with my current driving license, it would have taken
> less time to fill in the form on the driving license by hand!
>
> As I was mighty brassed off, I whipped off an email to the DVLA who
> responded:
>
> "As your enquiry is regarding an online application it will be
> necessary for you to contact our designated help line on telephone
> number 0870 850 2963."
>
> FFS, we pay for this buffoonery!
>
> </rant>
>
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