DVLA Car Tax

BYALPHAINDIA

Renewed my car tax for another 6 months yesterday online, It took 3 minutes the computer electronically checks your MOT, Insurance, V5.

Very easy to use, You receive your disc in 5 days.

Legal to drive with old disc on, As all the 'poles' have to do is check their (ANPR) Automatic Number Plate recognition with the DVLA.

Technology!!

SandC

It's great isn't it?

Although I am slightly torn in that more of us using the online service is even less people in our post offices, but not having to root out your MOT and tax and go stand in a queue is too much of a pull for me I'm afraid.

sillyvixen

i agree, renewed on line for the first time in may - so much quicker than spending most of my lunch hour in the post office queue - only to find i have take the old insurance cert instead of the new one. a bit of typing and the tax disk is with you in under a week. apparently you can use the same service over the phone as my dad has been doing for several years.

scubaangel

I used the online service twice and on neither occasion got the disc without a visit to the DVLA office. So if you have an unusual address beware - at the time I was living in work accomodation, which is where the car was registered to and they had no problem sending the reminders to it.

BYALPHAINDIA

The Post Office has gone out of fashion now, A shame but times change.

They won't lose out much as they don't charge a fee to process tax.

dougk_2

SandC wrote: »

It's great isn't it?

Although I am slightly torn in that more of us using the online service is even less people in our post offices, but not having to root out your MOT and tax and go stand in a queue is too much of a pull for me I'm afraid.

In my view it's the PO own fault. Not enough staff at counters and them selling (or trying to) all sorts of extra services. They should have stuck with key services. Things like TV Licence, Car Tax and sending post!

I don't want to spend 1 hr in the post office with 2 cashiers and a queue 60 deep because someone is applying for a passport and it takes 10 mins to complete the form!

techno12

Disagree. I haven't been able to renew online this past 2 years. Each time I get refused as it says my MOT isn't in their database, yet I know it is as I can access it myself via the motinfo website - !!!!!!?! - looks like some wires are crossed between the various govt departments.

Maybe they'll sort it by next June when I renew again..

taxiphil

BYALPHAINDIA wrote: »

Legal to drive with old disc on, As all the 'poles' have to do is check their (ANPR) Automatic Number Plate recognition with the DVLA.

If the old disc on your windscreen has expired, then what you're saying is not actually correct - it's still an offence to fail to display a current tax disc whilst using or keeping a vehicle on a public highway. The fact that you've purchased valid VED is irrelevant - the offence is for not displaying it.

The advent of ANPR has made this an anomaly in the law, as there's no practical reason why anyone should need to display their tax disc any more, but the law still says you need to display it.

azjh77

I've been trying to SORN our car, the website won't let me...and the phone line refuses to except my call and put a real person on...God I hate automatic phone lines...

98jdougl

taxiphil wrote: »

If the old disc on your windscreen has expired, then what you're saying is not actually correct - it's still an offence to fail to display a current tax disc whilst using or keeping a vehicle on a public highway. The fact that you've purchased valid VED is irrelevant - the offence is for not displaying it.

The advent of ANPR has made this an anomaly in the law, as there's no practical reason why anyone should need to display their tax disc any more, but the law still says you need to display it.

there is a 14 days grace period between your old disc running out and your new disc having to go up and in that time it isn't actually illegal

espresso

98jdougl wrote: »

there is a 14 days grace period between your old disc running out and your new disc having to go up and in that time it isn't actually illegal

That is not true! You can be fined for not displaying a valid tax disc.