Get rid of road tax

Road Tax is inefficient. It creates an easy to commit crime. It also penalises you for using your car less than others do. It's also inconvenient: paying a lump sump once or twice a year by filling in a form and queuing in a Post Office during working hours. Abolish it (for private & light goods vehicles) and increase fuel duties to recoup the lost revenue. The more you use fuel the more you use roads and the more you pay, which makes sense, right?

It also reduces Police and court time spent enforcing an archaic, regressive tax. It would also reduce the amount of people facing hefty fines for non-compliance - and these are more typically people who couldn't afford a hefty fine in the first place (hence they didn't buy their road tax). Additionally, people with overseas registered cars would be paying their way better. If you have, say, a car registered in Italy, you pay no road tax. What's the sense of that?