Taxing a recently bought car

no-oneknowsme

Just wanted to check something as I dont think that the Woman in my local post office today is giving me the correct info....

I have just bought a new (to me) car. Unfortunately there isnt any tax on it.

I have the new keeper supplement from the V5 which was given to me by the seller , I have my insurance docs and I have the mot certificate.

Now , my local PO is where I would always go to buy my tax so they DO do it ok but today they are telling me that they are unable to tax a car with just the new keeper supplement.

I have copied and pasted the following info from the direct gov site and it appears to be saying that I CAN tax my car with the docs I currently have :

Tax with a Registration Certificate or New Keeper Supplement – in person or by post
You can tax in person at any Post Office® branch that issues tax discs.
You will need to take:

• Registration Certificate or New Keeper Supplement
• insurance certificate or cover note – must be valid when the tax disc comes into force
• valid MOT certificate - if the car or motorcycle is over three years old - must be valid when the tax disc comes into force
• the payment for vehicle tax (not needed if your vehicle is exempt from paying vehicle tax)

Who is right here , is it me or the PO woman?

vax2002

Just go to another post office

scheming_gypsy

you can tax it with the green slip unless it's stamped as already being used.

no-oneknowsme

vax2002 wrote: »

Just go to another post office

Why do that? Why would i travel to another PO which is miles away only to be told that the advice given in the first PO was correct! Hence why I am asking on here just to see who is correct lol.

The next closest PO which does car tax is just round the corner from our main DVLA so if I was going to travel further afield I would just go there.....but I cant be bothered to be honest as it means a bus journey.

no-oneknowsme

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

you can tax it with the green slip unless it's stamped as already being used.

No , its defo not stamped.

Im going to go back up to the PO and speak to another clerk to see if the first one was mistaken.

scheming_gypsy

They were mistaken, you can tax with the green slip and they'll stamp it so you shouldn't have any problems with somebody who knows what to do.

Alias_Omega

Can also do it online too, then the tax will be in the post.

scheming_gypsy

Alias_Omega wrote: »

Can also do it online too, then the tax will be in the post.

to the old owner seeing as the OP only just bought the car and it won't be in their name yet.

prowla

I think there is a warning about this in the online tax pages.

neilmcl

prowla wrote: »

I think there is a warning about this in the online tax pages.

A warning about what?

OP, it's prefectly legitimate to be able to use the V5 supplement to Tax your car, the PO clerk is mistaken. Have you filled in your details on the slip?

s_b

Complain in post office to person in charge
The whole idea of new keeper slip is to tax a car just purchased
Strangely there is a post office 3 miles in the other direction to me and I havent been there in 5 years because they arent fit to sell stamps never mind anything else