Taxing a newly bought car

threebeans

I bought a car on Thursday evening, and got my insurance sorted on Friday but haven't received my cover note or certificate or anything yet. How do I go about taxing it?

I've been driving it, and I need to drive it on Monday to get to work (live in an area of no public transport) but with today being Sunday there will be no post offices open and I don't have a certificate to take with me anyway. I tried online and it said I couldn't do it "due to changes in the vehicles information" or something. I also tried online but again, it says I can't as I only have the New Keeper Supplement and not a proper log book.

What can I do!??!

Andy_L

Unfortunately your choices are either:
Drive it & risk getting caught, prosecuted & fined or
Keep it off road until your insurance paperwork comes through.

flutterbyuk25

Yep Andy L is right.

There is no way to tax it til you have your insurance certificate or covernote through the post.

You cannot tax online/by phone as this service is only available for registered keepers, as DVLA would not know who to send disc to for new keepers.

So you need to keep vehicle off road until it has been taxed.

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MX5huggy

Don't drive it, make sure it is off the road aswell.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1358907

I think a Taxi will be cheeper than that hassell

threebeans

Damn it, I'm just gonna have to take the risk because not driving it is simply not an option.

Does the 14 day allowance thing cover this? I know I've driven with an expired tax disc before because my car failed it's MOT and I was couldn't get it booked in to get the work done for a couple of days.

I'm actually really angry about this, because I was never told it would be illegal to even drive the car away from the dealer. They gave me a free 7 day insurance thing so I could get it taxed, but that wasn't working so I sorted my own out through my own insurance. Shouldn't have bothered because now I have to wait for the certificate to come and that could be weeks what with Christmas post. :mad:

How much is a fine these days?

threebeans

MX5huggy wrote: »

Don't drive it, make sure it is off the road aswell.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1358907

I think a Taxi will be cheeper than that hassell

Woah!
How exactly do you keep a car off road when if you don't have a drive?

Inactive

Park it on a friends/neighbours drive.;)

flutterbyuk25

threebeans wrote: »

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Does the 14 day allowance thing cover this?

There is no 14 day allowance. Urban myth.

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threebeans

I don't know anybody with a drive!

Looks like I'm well and truely up !!!!!! creek with this...haven't got any Christmas shopping done or anything, am supposed to be picking up my partner from work in an hour and he has no money for a taxi and there are no buses on a Sunday. :mad:

I can't even print out the cover note from my insurance because I haven't got a printer!

markelock

you can't not have any money for a taxi, but have money for a car and fuel, and tax, insurance etc etc?

credit_crunch_victim

every dealer i know offers to tax the car prior to picking it up at cost
they have the facilities needed to do this and this is what you should have done
i just got a runabout and changed my insurance over and needed a covernote asap and they sent it recorded delivery so i had it next day for 4.80p which was worth it to me
tesco post offices are open late as well
your not insured either as your car should not be on the road so be carefull