taxing a car and DVLA requirements urgent help needed

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lawrie28 wrote: »

buy it online? will be posted to the registered keeper, and as long as it shows on the database you are fine.

The exemption from the requirement to display a tax disc only applies if the tax is being renewed online (or possibly by post too, not sure) with no break in the taxed period. Since we're at the end of the month, the car has been untaxed for at least 22 days and thus this exemption doesn't apply.

"Failure to display a valid tax disc" is a separate offence from being untaxed. Untaxed cars usually fall foul of both.

Seconding the suggestion to fill out the new keeper suppliment, though it may not be legal to actually do this.

housesitter

The V5 shows who the car is registered to, it does not actually show who the owner is.
There is a difference, see hire purchase or financing.

The PO are being a bit OTT. The car has a policy against it.
What do you think couples do where one of them has the cars in their name but the other is on the insurance as the main driver??

Fill out the new keeper section to get by it if they still wont do it elsewhere as suggested above.

It's pretty pathetic really. They don't check that the car is actually insured, only that you have a piece of paper saying so. Which yours does.
Also trader insurance is good enough to insure cars not in your own name.

The whole system is pretty crappy.

ellawaude

I used to work for the post office, and never came across this problem before.
We were simply taught to look and check that the car would be insured on the first day of the new tax disc, check the MOT ect. The name as far as I am aware is irrelevant. As long as the dates are ok, registration matches (and if you think something is a bit fishy the make, model and colour match) and the MOT is in date you should be ok. We just had to do our best to ensure that the car was legal.

Post Offices however will not (or should not) accept anything but an 'original' insurance document. Its fussy, and alot of the time it may be hard to tell, but thats the rules we have to follow. :S

Hope you've got it sorted!

...if not I believe you can do it upto 2 weeks after the expiry of your old tax disc without problem. Just don't drive it to get the disc! Hope this helps

pitkin2020

custardy wrote: »

most post offices will not entertain a printed out certificate
can you not get the insurer to send it out special delivery if you pay?

some insurers dont send out certificates anymore, swift cover one dont it is all done online and you have to print the cert out and they post will accept it, they have done for me for the last 2 years