Tax help please!

Gene_Hunt_2

No rush, the OP has til the end of the month. Tax doesn't expire on the 7th.

ailuro2

Unless of course it should have been done for December...;)

Apples2

If the OP is concerned about using the car to go and get a print, it's a fair guess the Tax expired last Month.

OP - Have you tried using a Different browser (Firefox, Chrome, Opera etc)?

DaveF327

Inactive wrote: »

Will the Post Office accept a printed copy?, they would not at one time, things may have changed.

If Post Office staff used a little common sense and moved with the times, they should accept pdf files in this day and age, regardless if it's on a phone, iPad or wherever.

I was confronted with suspicion and funny looks when I emailed my boss my pdf certificate. He told me he needed to see a paper copy, so I just pressed print on his computer, walked over to the printer, handed the printed paper to him and he really didn't quite know what to say.

mikey72

DaveF327 wrote: »

If Post Office staff used a little common sense and moved with the times, they should accept pdf files in this day and age, regardless if it's on a phone, iPad or wherever.

I was confronted with suspicion and funny looks when I emailed my boss my pdf certificate. He told me he needed to see a paper copy, so I just pressed print on his computer, walked over to the printer, handed the printed paper to him and he really didn't quite know what to say.

It's a legal document. He should have insisted on the original.
(or paid your expenses with a pdf of the cheque)

bramble1

Inactive wrote: »

Good question, if yes, the OP should be able to tax it online, if not they should chase up their insurers.

Can't tax it online always comes up with an error, can't even tax it over the phone!

anywooo managed to get a paper copy and vehicle is now taxed

DaveF327

mikey72 wrote: »

It's a legal document. He should have insisted on the original.
(or paid your expenses with a pdf of the cheque)

An electronic version doesn't make it any less legal. The law says you must have a policy of insurance, not a piece of paper.

As for a pdf of a cheque, I suppose I could give the staff at my bank some amusement with that one someday, but my guess is they could simply authorise it as an electronic bank transfer. More common practice, however, is for a debtor to perform an online transfer rather than go to the trouble of creating a pdf that resembles a cheque.

bramble1 wrote: »

Can't tax it online always comes up with an error, can't even tax it over the phone!

Glad that you're sorted now, but I wouldn't be able to rest until I found out the root cause of the problem. If your insurance or MOT isn't "showing" on the DVLA database when you try to tax it, it won't show on the police one either when they scan you as you drive past them. What explanation was given over the phone when you tried it that way?

mikey72

DaveF327 wrote: »

An electronic version doesn't make it any less legal. The law says you must have a policy of insurance, not a piece of paper.

As for a pdf of a cheque, I suppose I could give the staff at my bank some amusement with that one someday, but my guess is they could simply authorise it as an electronic bank transfer. More common practice, however, is for a debtor to perform an online transfer rather than go to the trouble of creating a pdf that resembles a cheque.

Glad that you're sorted now, but I wouldn't be able to rest until I found out the root cause of the problem. If your insurance or MOT isn't "showing" on the DVLA database when you try to tax it, it won't show on the police one either when they scan you as you drive past them. What explanation was given over the phone when you tried it that way?

Well I assume your boss was asking for a reason, so if he needs to know you have insurance, he has a duty of care to ensure it is a valid policy. If he needs to prove you gave him a valid copy, getting the hard copy out of the files usually works.
I agree though, the law says you must have valid insurance, usually if you get stopped for not being on askmid, the hard copy of the insurance will work. Showing the copy of the pdf on your phone may not have the same effect, and you could be walking home.

Still, go with the idea of suggesting they pay you by pdf cheque if you want to though.
I doubt your bank would see it in the same light as a bacs transfer.

(The law does actually say you must have a piece of paper if you want to buy your tax disc at the post office)

mikey72

Wally_Gator wrote: »

Yet they didn't/don't accept a photo copy.

They still don't.
They will accept an original print by yourself though.
You may also find many that refuse to, incorrectly.