Vehicle tax changes 1st October 2014

[yasminelee]

i have found from experience that as long as your nice if your pulled over and can prove you purchased the vehicle that day they normally give you a days grace. It does depend if you have a current MOT and Insurance document on you at the time.

There is something else you can do if you find it a problem. Before you buy a vehicle you can and always, have been able to, check for vehicle tax prior to purchase either on line or via phone and so can make appropriate arrangement to pick up any cars you wish to buy.

For thous that are concerned about taxing on line i am sure they will still have the facility to go to your local post office to get your tax.

[RatCav]

Problem is withthe ANPR cameras around (and potentially more) the fines will be sent out automatically.

Mind you saying that. You will still have to send off the V5c form. That will take at least 24 hours to get to the DVLA. While the vehicle is still technically in the previous owners name I assume the vehicle will still be taxed. The tax will only be cancelled once the registration details have been updated. Makes you wonder then what happens in that grey area between the details on the system being changed at the DVLA and you recieving the new V5c letting you know that you own the vehicle, so you can get the tax.

[drinksoptional]

Thats what i am wondering about is the car taxed . It easier to to sell a car with tax the buyer want to drive home and worry about the rest when they get it home

[hipo1024]

Gone will be the days of buying a cheap banger for 300 with TnT seeing as tax along is currently about 225 a year for pre 2001 cars.

Australia has something abit like this from what I gather. It's there version of a mot, they call it rego or something and when you buy a car you have to get it rego'd before your allowed to drive it, except for getting it home as long as the previous owner has rego on it (I gathered the above from following mighty car mods on YouTube so I might be wrong lol)

[country_Est]

Problem with it is also about buying a car mid month or any time but the end of the month.

Buy car mid month and have to tax from the begining of the month, when selling have to cash in the tax but will only get ful months back, so riped off each time you sell / buy when it not at the end of the month.

Trev

[drinksoptional]

What is point of roadtax if its pre 2001 its cheaper to own a v6 yet after its more how does that work out ? Its a green tax nit a roadtax so what are we paying for

[Wilberforce]

It hasn't been 'road tax' in years - I think it was some time in the 1930's when the money collected from your car tax disc stopped being ring-fenced for the roads and just got dumped in the general taxation pot.
It's just another tax now, but you can't drive a car on the roads without it is all. Pre 2001 was a simple small engine / big engine system, but now it is weighted towards being a green type tax. Small car with low emissions attracts either no tax, or a minimal tax. As you drive bigger and more polluting cars the tax goes up, with the added bonus that your first year's tax is given a hefty one off charge - about £500 in the case of the worst cars, so the first year's road tax there is well over £1,000.

Unfair in that the bloke who drives his car once or twice a week to the shops, etc, pays exactly the same car tax as the guy who might do 20K miles every year. It's still small change compared to fuel duty though, even a few thousand miles in a nice efficient car means you've paid more in fuel tax than car tax; drive around in a thirsty old tank like ours and fuel duty costs you many times mroe than you pay on car tax every year.

[drinksoptional]

Excatly it isnt got anything to do with road tax I can pay two amounts for same engine size what has that git to do with the road

[scoutyal]

i have yet to find a way of not handing the dvla one month worth of extra tax if the letter of the law is followed.