MOT / Tax query

Greensprout

My road tax expires on the 31st October and my MOT is on the 11 Nov.

How much MOT do I need to be able to get road tax or doesn't it matter as long as I have some?

I am unable to tax my car online as the MOT certificate is unrecognised for some reason.

Thrifty-saver

Providing your MOT is in date, you can get your car tax up till expiry date.
Hope this helps, but I re-new my car-tax& also my husband's on-line & have done for several years without any problems, so can't help you as to why your MOT isn't being accepted. Hope you haven't got one of the hundreds, maybe thousands, of forged & fake MOT certificates

gsmmad

just go down to the post office, i had a similar problem with the online system.

MX5huggy

Is your MOT in the database?

http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/

Greensprout

Thanks for the replies..

I'll have to try at the Post Office in the morning.

I can't check to see if my MOT is listed as I'm at work now..

However I don't believe it will be as a couple of months ago I got pulled by the police for having 'No MOT'. I had to prove to the officer within 5 days that I did or he was going to issue a fine, I did and all checked out fine.

I asked why it wasn't on the system and he says the MOT place probably didn't follow the procedure and somehow didn't 'tick the box'.