New Road Tax display rules

mgdavid

Tilt wrote: »

That's if you can get an internet signal where ever you are. Plus not everyone has a mobile device that can do so.

obviously...

Rover_Driver

Tilt wrote: »

the "technology" that the DVLA claims will take over from the tax disc (ANPR) requires cameras to be installed all over the road network.

The DVLA will (should!!) also know from their database if a vehicle is licensed or not, and if it should be.

londonTiger

redux wrote: »

There is no longer any connection between having a tax disc and having insurance. Neither application online nor in person at a post office have a check for insurance cover.

well that's reasonable, we're no longer going to get caught up in beauracratic BS

Nikkisun

At work I'm responsible for making sure nearly 200 vehicles are correctly taxed.

Our insurance runs April - March and I know that at the beginning of March when I try and tax the vehicles online that are due in April if our insurance hasn't yet been renewed then it won't let me apply for the tax discs.

This has resulted in very tight deadlines in me getting the tax discs onto the cars in time!!

AdrianC

Nikkisun wrote: »

At work I'm responsible for making sure nearly 200 vehicles are correctly taxed.

Our insurance runs April - March and I know that at the beginning of March when I try and tax the vehicles online that are due in April if our insurance hasn't yet been renewed then it won't let me apply for the tax discs.

This has resulted in very tight deadlines in me getting the tax discs onto the cars in time!!

The rules only changed last December. I'd guess this April's went smoothly...?

redux

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

I have taxed both my own car and my daughters car in the last few days, and on both occasions they were done online via DLA. On both occasions the website states 'Please wait while we check your documentation before completion.' So DLA certainly check for insurance and MOT.

That doesn't prove that it checked the insurance.

I have two vehicles but only one at a time in use. I wanted to swap the other day, and briefly looked at taxing online. It cleared the checks even though I hadn't yet changed the insurance over. I didn't buy though. At the post office next morning she said they'd been told they no longer needed to check insurance.

All the information on gov webpages now says it will check the MOT on application, or in the new direct debit scheme it will continue to charge while there is a valid MOT. The only mentions of checking insurance as well refer only to Northern Ireland.

[Deleted User]

I taxed my car 1st April at PO (just bought car so couldn't use online) and all I handed over was the new keeper slip, no insurance or MOT docs.

Yet the tax renewal reminder I have just received in the post for Oct tax renewal says you need to show an MOT cert at PO to tax.

AdrianC

Deleted_User wrote: »

I taxed my car 1st April at PO (just bought car so couldn't use online) and all I handed over was the new keeper slip, no insurance or MOT docs.

Yet the tax renewal reminder I have just received in the post for Oct tax renewal says you need to show an MOT cert at PO to tax.

Was the car just under 3yo in April, will be over in Oct?

[Deleted User]

AdrianC wrote: »

Was the car just under 3yo in April, will be over in Oct?

No it's 13 years old, same car with the fuel light problem.

londonTiger

it makes perfect sense, the tax disc contingent of insurance and mot was an archaic way of ensuring there weren't any uninsured, un-motd and obviously untaxed vehicles on the road.

the tax disc can be seen from a mile away, so a tax disc was a sign that everything was in order.

now everything is computerised, anpr and cctv check everyting on the database so this archic tax disc application requirement is no longer necessary.