Taxing a car

Trow

I suppose the problem is that the tax is effectively valid straight away - you can get it in advance with a current tax disc because you already have it taxed to the end of the current month, but if you buy it in advance with no current tax disc you would get away with driving it on public roads with that disc but effectively it would be illegal - if you see what I mean.

Curry_Queen

Trow wrote:

The two month thing certainly didn't apply when I renewed my car tax last year - it works out that the car tax is due a month before the MOT is renewable, and we have never had a problem getting the car tax renewed, despite the MOT running out a month later.

It could well be two weeks and not months then, like I said I wasn't absolutely certain I'd got it right as it's a while since I've taxed a car but I know certainly in the past there was a limit on expiry to be able to use the documents for tax.

aeuerby - I apologise for mistakenly thinking the 1st May was actually on Monday and not Sunday (every day's the same to me!) so you're quite right you could have driven tomorrow

As for the insurance thing, I still think it's quite clear in the law as to why you can't buy car tax before your insurance is due to start, as the risk is just too high that you may well be tempted to drive before the insurance was valid (you as in generic, not you personally) and what's to stop you cancelling that policy once the tax is obtained

mrcow

Curry_Queen wrote:

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that an insurance cert and MOT must have at least two months to run before expiry in order to obtain car tax.

Yes you are wrong.

My tax runs out less than one month before my MOT. Never had a problem renewing.

Curry_Queen

mrcow wrote:

Yes you are wrong.

My tax runs out less than one month before my MOT. Never had a problem renewing.

Yes I realised that and apologised in the post above

mrcow

I wasn't being picky (or was I?!). I just meant that I don't think that there is any time limit, as long as your documentation is in order for the start of the tax disc date.

Curry_Queen

mrcow wrote:

I wasn't being picky (or was I?!). I just meant that I don't think that there is any time limit, as long as your documentation is in order for the start of the tax disc date.

I can't find anything official in writing so it's bugging me now as I know I've been turned away from the PO before because the MOT was close to running out. I'm pretty sure it's the same for insurance too.

NigeWick

aeuerby wrote:

My original post was the disbelief that even though it is obvious the insurance is valid the day the tax is valid

But it isn't is it? It will be valid from the day of issue and that is why they require documents in force for that date.

Nigel.

shrek101

Haha Mr Howards campaign bus was caught without a valid tax disc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/blog/default.stm