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Why don't you ask them why the fees are so high? We must be doing something right down here cos ours are much lower and we have nowhere as much grief with the council as you appear to have

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

The trade in Edinburgh has higher running costs, what with the cab office, taxi marshalls, surveys of demand, court cost's, taxi rank maintainance etc. It all has to be paid for by the fees of the Taxi/Phc trade, self financing Jasbar, but you know that don't you, troublemaking again

If you ask me our trade needs a lot of investment so as to bring our Capital Cities Taxi/Phc trade in to the 21st century and i mean a lot of investment especially our cab office, so the only way we can achieve this is New York New York my old not my matey

The cost of the yearly renewal is £267 Skippy

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

How much does it cost in Glasgow Dundee Inverness and Aberdeen
All 4 city's about the same size as Edinburgh.
Is the £267 just for the cab or cab and drivers
If its just for the cab thats all it should be at first application, when you renew you go through exactly the same process

Glasgow is twice the size and has two or three times more vehicles operating, Dundee and Inverness are smaller and in Aberdeen the trade is saturated. The Trade in Edinburgh is different from all 4 as we are a Capital City and we are the hub for the whole nation just as London is for England.

I'm debating the rights and wrongs of the fee's difference between other LA's but that's what the difference is and it's DIFFERENCE, no two markets are the same, Skippy you don't think that our trade should be based the same as the trade in the Borders do you Edinburgh is a limited market and the funding for the council to run our trade is justified, if it wasn't i can assure you more than the 3 amigo's would be complaining.

We are looking at increasing fees for corporate profiteers so as to protect individuals from further increases, i can't stand fairer than that in my opinion but it's my opinion

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

Well Reggie the licencing process is more or less the same nationwide so your completely at ease at new owner drivers having to bend over and take it as it comes
Don't forget that payment for a licence is only clerical, they cannot charge for enforcement or anything else on top, apart from rank markings a signage possibly