Car tax disc to be axed after 93 years

Iceweasel

Stageshoot wrote: »

How do the new rules affect cars in the £0 band? (Under 99g/km)

Both my cars fall intot his band, and currently I have to take the £0 renewal letter from the DVLA to the post office and swap it for a £0 Tax disc each year.

I am hoping I will now have to do nothing, but fear with the governments love for red tape I will still have to register and do renewals for £0. Anybody Know? I could not see it in the breakdown of the new system anywhere.

You could set up a Direct Debit to pay them £0.00 every month. LOL

colino

Just wait for their system to screw up and a DD to fail. They'll then automatically threaten you with a fine for failure to pay the £0.00!

[Deleted User]

Stageshoot wrote: »

How do the new rules affect cars in the £0 band? (Under 99g/km)

Both my cars fall intot his band, and currently I have to take the £0 renewal letter from the DVLA to the post office and swap it for a £0 Tax disc each year.

I am hoping I will now have to do nothing, but fear with the governments love for red tape I will still have to register and do renewals for £0. Anybody Know? I could not see it in the breakdown of the new system anywhere.

They'll still send the renewal letter which you will have to take to Post Office for them to scan and issue you a receipt or do online. The process will be the same but without being handed a disc.

john539

Deleted_User wrote: »

They'll still send the renewal letter which you will have to take to Post Office for them to scan and issue you a receipt or do online. The process will be the same but without being handed a disc.

You don't believe they're going to scrap tax discs.

This is clueless Tory nonsense ! :rotfl:

[Deleted User]

john539 wrote: »

You don't believe they're going to scrap tax discs.

This is clueless Tory nonsense ! :rotfl:

Yes they are scrapping the discs, but you still have to pay the tax. Even if your VED is £0.00 you still get a renewal letter (V11) to either renew the tax or declare SORN with.

john539

Deleted_User wrote: »

Yes they are scrapping the discs, but you still have to pay the tax. Even if your VED is £0.00 you still get a renewal letter (V11) to either renew the tax or declare SORN with.

I'll believe it when I see it !

john539

AdrianC wrote: »

now that insurance isn't checked on tax disc sale.

AdrianC wrote: »

It changed a few months back.

Go into a PO to buy a tax disc, and you're no longer asked for an insurance certificate. They don't check it online, either. The logic goes that, since it's an automatic offence to have a car taxed but not insured, they'll sell you a disc, but then send you a fine for doing so.

And, of course, we all know that nobody ever commits any motoring offence, and that every car has a registered keeper who's traceable at all times, don't we?

So people can now declare SORN, tax their cars without having insurance, keep car off the road or park somewhere out of way & go for drives when it suits, just need to avoid police & ANPR.

Car having valid tax disc, means car won't attract attention of locals.

Brilliant ! :doh:

AdrianC

john539 wrote: »

So people can now declare SORN, tax their cars without having insurance

No, because taxing a car cancels the SORN, and because it's illegal to have a car that's uninsured and not SORNed.

Iceweasel

Lots of folks seem to be imagining problems where there are none.

A few weeks ago we had the question -"How will I know that the car I'm buying has been taxed?"

We know the answer to that now but that wont stop lots of folks asking the same question again come October.

I imagine some will be disappointed that they won't be able to go for a walk 'out of date disc spotting'. They'll find something else to check no doubt - tyre tread depth perhaps.

Personally I'll be glad to remove the disc from the windscreen in October.

Buellguy

Iceweasel wrote: »

Lots of folks seem to be imagining problems where there are none.

A few weeks ago we had the question -"How will I know that the car I'm buying has been taxed?"

We know the answer to that now but that wont stop lots of folks asking the same question again come October.

I imagine some will be disappointed that they won't be able to go for a walk 'out of date disc spotting'. They'll find something else to check no doubt - tyre tread depth perhaps.

Personally I'll be glad to remove the disc from the windscreen in October.

An I'll be glad when I don't have to display one on the bike, one less thing for little sc"£$%s to rip off and nick (which I then have to pay to get replaced!!)