Reduction in vehicle testing
changes to taxi and private hire licensing fees which came into effect from 1 April 2010.
fees for first time passes
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including reviewing existing business policies and processes, identifying and reducing waste and ceasing non-business critical activities.
on most licence fees, but given the current economic climate, a freeze, and in some places a reduction on fees has been agreed.
The fees to be frozen at 2009 rates include:
Taxi driver three year licence fee Taxi annual licence fee
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Private hire licence application and inspection fee
Private hire operator licence application fee
All funds generated from taxi and private hire fees are used to cover licensing and administration costs. The additional funding generated by an increase in these fees would
on the London taxi licence application and
re-test fee to encourage more taxi drivers and vehicle owners to ensure their vehicles are in top condition and pass their annual and on-street or
currently at 38 per cent and to encourage drivers and owners to ensure the general standard of the vehicle is compliant at all times.
structure for removing or adding operating centres has also taken place. The fee payable for removing an operating centre from a private hire vehicle operator’s licence will
in processing the licences.
John Mason, TfL’s Director of Taxi and Private
Hire, said: “Every penny that TfL receives from license fees is spent on providing the services we deliver and I am committed to providing the
costs. This is why I felt that we should freeze
savings instead.
‘’I know that there will be many in the trade that may be wary of the introduction of a taxi re-test fee but we have to do everything we can to
everyone in the trade to do all they can to keep the standard of vehicles maintained at all times.
reduction in the current cost and will no longer subsidise those drivers that continually fail. Whilst we expect that over the course of the year the income from taxi vehicle tests will cover the cost of providing the service, if there is any surplus at all then this will be used next year to
In addition to these changes, the one-off Knowledge of London ‘appearance’ fee for
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