car tax renewal with home printed isurance certificate

adamc260

I taxed mine with an online cert printed via Aviva's website with no problem at all

[Deleted User]

Depends if there is a dinosaur behind the post office counter of not.

jase1

Probably something to be said for rolling all these services together; MOT, tax and compulsory basic insurance.

Brand new car comes with all three for three years, with the cost front-loaded. Then when the car goes in for test, you pay the £300 or so for all three in one shot, all on one database. If you then decide to pay for comprehensive insurance, that's up to you.

Would simplify the whole system, minimise the number of illegal cars floating around and allow police to come down like a ton of bricks on insurance offenders.

taffy056

Actually the Post Office must accept insurance documents printed from home

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_069671

mama4321

On the tax renewal document it actually says you can do it with a downloaded (but not photocopied) insurance certificate - did it myself yesterday with no problem.

rev_henry

jase1 wrote: »

Probably something to be said for rolling all these services together; MOT, tax and compulsory basic insurance.

Brand new car comes with all three for three years, with the cost front-loaded. Then when the car goes in for test, you pay the £300 or so for all three in one shot, all on one database. If you then decide to pay for comprehensive insurance, that's up to you.

Would simplify the whole system, minimise the number of illegal cars floating around and allow police to come down like a ton of bricks on insurance offenders.

They have a system a little like this in Australia. Basic RTA (or their equivalent) insurance is provided for by the cost of road tax, though apparently its so basic it doesn't even cover cars, just injury to persons.

Over here however, where can I get RTA insurance for £300?

rev_henry

taffy056 wrote: »

Actually the Post Office must accept insurance documents printed from home

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_069671

'Insurance certificates downloaded directly from the internet by the policy holder are acceptable from 30 April 2010 (this applies to GB only). Fax copies are also acceptable.'

alastairq

often people try to get their car tax at a post office, using an insurance certificate which does not cover the date the tax runs from.

Hence sometimes tales of insurance certificate being refused at PO counter?

Marvel1

If you but it online before the 30th April, you have 5 working days which can display the old tax disc - 9th May.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10021514

Printed certifcates are acceptable:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_069671

HO87

rev_henry wrote: »

'Insurance certificates downloaded directly from the internet by the policy holder are acceptable from 30 April 2010 (this applies to GB only). Fax copies are also acceptable.'

I think the issue is people quite innocently having asked the PO counter staff if a home-printed insurance certificate (albeit downloaded) was OK and being refused out of ignorance. I saw this happen some months ago when re-taxing HO87 Jnr's car for him. The guy in front asked the question and the counter chap looked quizzical, asked a colleague and then refused it. I was in exactly the same situation (Swiftcover) and just kept my mouth shut. The home-printed certificate was accepted without question. Maybe it's a question of the quality of the paper or that it was folded and taken out of an envelope in the front of the counter that did it?