Could i buy car tax tomorrow (30Sep) to start the day after (1Oct)?

JustAnotherSaver

Car is currently SORN, but with tomorrow being the only day i can really get to a post office, could i buy road tax tomorrow with it starting the day after?

Or is this not possible & i'd be paying a full months payment for just 1 day?

dibuzz

Not sure but I think you would be paying for the full month for just 1 day's use.
Can you not do it online on the 1st?

Rover_Driver

If you do it at a Post Office it can be from 1st October, if you do it on-line before 1st October, it will automatically default to 1st September.

JustAnotherSaver

It has to be at the post office because i've not long bought the car. I still don't have the V5C back yet - only the new keepers tear off slip.

JustAnotherSaver

Looks like the post office doesn't do it for the following day.

Mum was in the area (local one doesn't do car tax) so picked it up. It was dated for September - so a whole months worth of tax paid just for about 3 hours worth of driving.

Great.

OddballJamie

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Looks like the post office doesn't do it for the following day.

Mum was in the area (local one doesn't do car tax) so picked it up. It was dated for September - so a whole months worth of tax paid just for about 3 hours worth of driving.

Great.

Do you mean the tax disc says 09/14 on it?

redux

I have a tax disc bought on 30 Sept which expires on 30 Sept. Reading this query made me check just now.

My last car was also bought at the turn of a month. I paid the dealer a deposit and asked to collect it in a few days. I asked the DVLA whether it was possible to buy the tax early. Only if it was currently taxed could it be done several days early, but I could do it the last day of the current month.

That was 10 years ago, but it's apparently it's still fairly similar, and their website says if you apply in the last two days of a month will start in the next month.

As the post above hints, if yours says Sept expiry, then it will mean 30 Sept, so it covers Oct to Sept and is how you wanted it.

AdrianC

Rover_Driver wrote: »

if you do it on-line before 1st October, it will automatically default to 1st September.

If you tax a previously SORNed car online, within the last couple of days of the month, it starts to look as if it'll default to ~335 days left, but you then get another screen saying "Oh, hold on - did you want ~367 days instead?". Click the button, next, job jobbed.

Or, at least, it did for me on Sunday... <grin>

WTFH

Are you sure it says 01/09/14 and not 30/09/14 ?

JustAnotherSaver

It says 30/09/14 As it probably would've done if the tax had been bought on 01/09/13 or 15/09/13 or 30/09/13. If they'd have done as was suggested here, then surely the tax would've read 31/10/14 which would've been the same had the tax been bought yesterday - 01/10/13?

AdrianC

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

It says 30/09/14 As it probably would've done if the tax had been bought on 01/09/13 or 15/09/13 or 30/09/13. If they'd have done as was suggested here, then surely the tax would've read 31/10/14 which would've been the same had the tax been bought yesterday - 01/10/13?

If you bought the tax disc on the 1st or 15th September, it'd expire at the end of August.

If you bought the tax disc on the 1st or 15th October, it'd expire at the end of September.

If you bought it on the 1st Sept, and it expired at the end of Sept, that's thirteen months. Two September's worth...