car tax renewal with home printed isurance certificate

sales81

Can the Post Office Counter refuse to renew my car tax if I present them with an isurance certificate that I have printed at home? Albeit valid with an accompanying letter to varify its legitimacy. There is nowhere on my isurance companys website - who are entirely web based - that gives me the option of requesting documentation to be posted to me. What's to say the document I present hasn't been posted to me??

withabix

Why would they refuse?

Many documents are self-printed these days.

paddedjohn

just do it online with the reminder.

sales81

Two post offices in the area have refused in the past to renew my tax because I have an isurance certificate from swiftcover and they say they can't accept it because its not been sent to me but printed. I just want to know if they have to accept it. It is after all valid and perfectl legitimate.

Ordinarily I would do it online. But personal finances dictate that i will not be able to pay for it until the end of the month. So can't really wait for the bank holiday post to get my new tax disc out in time.

If my tax is recorded as being paid for but I'm not displaying the new disc immediately; am I liable to get done? even for the sake of a couple of days?

PasturesNew

Went with somebody to tax a car they'd just bought this week, no tax disc at all as it was 'for sale' on a garage forecourt. Insurance certificate was faxed to the garage and we took that with the V5 down to the post office and there wasn't any problem at all.

PasturesNew

When I did mine online, I'm sure it said "you can now drive for X days" - and the tax disc would arrive within Y days... where I saw a potential for the tax disc to have not arrived by the time my 'grace' ran out. Tax disc did arrive though, in super-quick time. This was last month.

picnic

you can drive you car without displaying a tax disc as long as one is paid for, the last page on the gov web site where you pay for the tax can be printed of as proof, but the police have access to a data base that proves tax insurance etc... you'll be fine.

Dippypud

Renew yourtax on-line. Saves all that faffing about.

New disc arrives about 2days later, not sure with all the Bank Holidays tho.

sales81

I thought that might have been the case but wasn't sure. Thanks for your help. I'll get on it.

rev_henry

As long as you've bought and paid for your tax online before it expires you're legal to drive without the actual disc for 5 days, iirc.

asbokid

It's about time the British Government was dragged into the 21st century over this tax scam, instead of ripping us off.

Tax Discs are obsolete. Dead in the water.

The Disc was always prone to Tippex-style frauds and serves no useful purpose today.

The online DVLA database allows the tax status of any car to be verified in real time.

Road Tax periods should no longer be rounded to the beginning of the month. There is absolutely no need with electronic payment methods for this pathetic, outdated accounting system.

Taxation of a car should be allowed from any day in the month, without the motorist suffering the financial penalty of back-dating the taxation to the beginning of the month.

It would be interesting to learn how much money the DVLA is making from these taxation swindles, and where that money is actually going.

Are these bumper proceeds returned to the Treasury and spent appropriately on our road system, or is our cash somehow finding its way onto Crapita's bank balance?