Road Tax

Road tax, known by various names around the world, is a tax which has to be paid on a motor vehicle before using it on a public road.

Famous quotes containing the words road and/or tax:

    “Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’”
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 18:13.