Renewing your vehicle tax online

[Churchill]

Which isn't a problem until the council come along and take it away to the scrappy.

My thoughts exactly...

[ZARDOZ]

Correct - The seller reclaims any remaining tax and the buyer then has to pay their tax from the date of purchase.

In other words, it will be associated with the owner rather than the car.

It might be a genuine attempt to simplify things, but I suspect it is a stalking horse for other planned road charges

I highlighted this as a BAS a few weeks ago..
It's an attempt to get more money i.e. seller and buyer lose out on partial months remaining.
E.g. car has 1 day less than a month remaining DVLA keeps the money paid out for it then takes a new month from the new owner.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

The only problem I can see is that the car is sat outside the house with a Sept 14 tax disk on it...

Why is that a problem? If its taxed, then it doesn't matter what disc (if any) you have on your car anymore. If checked, it will show up on the database as taxed.

[TykeMerc]

I renewed the tax on my car ready for October using the "beta" website. No problem at all - also no tax disk will be issued.

The only problem I can see is that the car is sat outside the house with a Sept 14 tax disk on it...

Presumably since you're paid up on the car tax from Oct 1st which doesn't require a disk then the old disk is just a window decoration now.

I guess the grounds for screaming untaxed vehicle are off a system check now.

The thing that people are moaning about is that the tax is only done in whole calendar months and not transferable which is a silly anachronism as TheCycling bloke pointed out.

[NickFitz]

DVLA Website: Total Inability To Support Usual Performance



How many million cars are in the UK?

Divide by 12 and that gives you a rough estimate

edit:
almost 40 million

3.3 million month. 250K seems a bit short of that, even considering that folks with a bit of foresight might not have waited until the last minute

There are around 30 days in a month, making 100,000 a day, which is less than 250,000 by a good margin.

Anyway, do you think they didn't look at the traffic figures for the existing site when planning the likely capacity they'd need? It's just that a load of people who'd normally be spread out over the month are panicking and doing it now because they're too stupid to understand a simple news story they didn't properly listen to anyway about a trivial change in bureaucracy, and thinking they need to do something today or they'll be put in prison and their babies sold to Lithuanian immigrants.

[MaryPoppins]

I highlighted this as a BAS a few weeks ago..
It's an attempt to get more money i.e. seller and buyer lose out on partial months remaining.
E.g. car has 1 day less than a month remaining DVLA keeps the money paid out for it then takes a new month from the new owner.

I think this is what was being discussed on R4 earlier today. Some fella was saying they will have an automated refund process in place to cover this sort of thing.

[Platypus]

Question: does this mean I can remove my tax disc from my vehicle?

EDIT: yes I can !

[NickFitz]

I think this is what was being discussed on R4 earlier today. Some fella was saying they will have an automated refund process in place to cover this sort of thing.

Correct. The vehicle owner has to fill in and send off the V5 ownership form, aka logbook, when they sell the car. When DVLA receive that, they automatically refund the outstanding tax.

[NickFitz]

I highlighted this as a BAS a few weeks ago..
It's an attempt to get more money i.e. seller and buyer lose out on partial months remaining.
E.g. car has 1 day less than a month remaining DVLA keeps the money paid out for it then takes a new month from the new owner.

Well, nothing they've tried so far has reduced the deficit - in fact, it keeps getting worse - so now they're trying this.

[MaryPoppins]

Question: does this mean I can remove my tax disc from my vehicle?

EDIT: yes I can !

It just feels a bit...naughty.