{"id":23766,"date":"2020-03-03T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23766"},"modified":"2020-03-03T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:15:10","slug":"but-i-had-a-really-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23766","title":{"rendered":"But I had a REALLY Good Reason&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Chickens and man flu top tax evaders\u2019 excuses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/chickens-and-man-flu-top-tax-evaders-excuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release from DVSA lists some of the reasons<\/a> given by people for not taxing their vehicles. You can read the article yourself, but I will repeat the list they give here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m about to start a prison sentence, so is there any way you could hang on to my ice cream van for six months \u2018til I get out?<\/li>\n<li>I would\u2019ve taxed my van but my bitter ex put four live chickens in it<\/li>\n<li>I know it was untaxed, but I didn\u2019t think you\u2019d clamp cars in a heatwave<\/li>\n<li>I forgot to tax it as I was looking after the kids (aged 19 and 26)<\/li>\n<li>I couldn\u2019t tax my car as I\u2019ve had man flu and have been stuck in bed for 4 weeks<\/li>\n<li>I would\u2019ve taxed the car, but you clamped it so early in the morning (the car was clamped at lunchtime)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love the one about looking after the \u2018kids\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A press release from DVSA lists some of the reasons given by people for not taxing their vehicles. You can read the article yourself, but I will repeat the list they give here: I\u2019m about to start a prison sentence, so is there any way you could hang on to my ice cream van for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-dvsa-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}