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The ability to buy online auto insurance has changed the way people shop for insurance forever. Gone are the days of pulling out the Yellow Pages, calling multiple companies for quotes, waiting days for someone to call you back with a quote (if they called you back at all!), comparing the quotes, trying to figure out if the policies and deductibles were the same for all the quotes, and finally - purchasing a policy and hoping it will be as good as your last one.

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Purchasing your auto insurance via the web is very convenient and simple. Despite the fact that many insurance companies earn less money as a result of having a more informed consumer, this is offset by the fact that these companies don’t lose valuable employee time doing nothing but rate quotes all day long for people. You can search for rate quotes, and make changes over and over again, and you are under no obligation until you decide on a policy, and go through the purchasing process.

Many companies have even developed the technology to let you print out your mandatory insurance cards to place in your vehicle as soon as you complete your purchase. This saves the time and hassle of waiting for these insurance cards to show up in the mail. Some companies are even starting to provide your entire policy as a printout, though they still must send a form for you to sign and mail back.

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Car tax rises leading to confusion and anxiety

In the wake of the latest Budget announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, there is growing confusion about which cars will be clobbered for more tax according to one of the UK’s leading car insurers.

Swinton Car Insurance is concerned that the latest wave of car tax rises outlined by Gordon Brown is leaving drivers unsure about which category their car fits into and whether their vehicle is one of the heaviest polluters.

The Manchester-based insurance company believes that the vast majority of drivers of family saloon type vehicles are unsure where their car fits on the pollution scale and how much it is costing them.

But, more alarmingly, an increasing number of drivers are getting worried that they may unwittingly be falling into Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) banding brackets which are becoming demonised for being so-called gas guzzlers.

Jon Kirk of Swinton Insurance said that it is all very well the Chancellor raising car tax for the heaviest polluting vehicles and lowering it for the most environmentally friendly cars, but the simple truth is very few people actually know which of the seven A-G bandings their cars fall into.

“It came as no surprise that the Chancellor put up car tax on the heaviest polluting vehicles in the latest Budget,” said Jon. “And most people know that 4×4s are the worst polluters on UK roads, but that’s not the whole story.”

As he points out, figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders revealed that the worst polluting band only accounted for 7.5 per cent of all