MSE News: The end is nigh for tax discs - how will it affect you?

AdrianC

Blimey, some of you lot seem to invest a heck of a lot of faith in an easily faked/"adjusted" piece of round paper...

SailorSam

I bought a new one only a couple of weeks ago so i'll be one of the last to have a disc.

Lit_Up

Can someone advise how I can renew the tax on my vehicle? I've just bought the car and the tax expires on the 29th September. I haven't received the V5C yet but I have the new keeper slip. To tax the car I need to supply the 11 digit document reference number, but this one is 12 digits for some reason and so I can't enter it in online? Can someone explain/help?

AdrianC

Lit_Up wrote: »

Can someone advise how I can renew the tax on my vehicle? I've just bought the car and the tax expires on the 29th September. I haven't received the V5C yet but I have the new keeper slip.

As it says on the slip - you still need to go to a post office with the slip. You can't do it online for a car you've just bought. Not yet, anyway.

tripled

Lit_Up wrote: »

Can someone advise how I can renew the tax on my vehicle? I've just bought the car and the tax expires on the 29th September. I haven't received the V5C yet but I have the new keeper slip. To tax the car I need to supply the 11 digit document reference number, but this one is 12 digits for some reason and so I can't enter it in online? Can someone explain/help?

It's actually valid up to and including the 30th, and you can take it to a Post Office to renew it.

corbyboy

Does anybody know if the DVLA has estimated the extra income they will earn for vehicles being double-taxed for a month when they are sold? That would be a very interesting number to know.

vekma

corbyboy wrote: »

Does anybody know if the DVLA has estimated the extra income they will earn for vehicles being double-taxed for a month when they are sold? That would be a very interesting number to know.

indeed and will they pass this saving onto us and maybe repair the sodding roads as well

AdrianC

vekma wrote: »

and maybe repair the sodding roads as well

You DO know that VED has had nothing whatsoever to do with road maintenance since the 1930s, right?

Lit_Up

AdrianC wrote: »

You DO know that VED has had nothing whatsoever to do with road maintenance since the 1930s, right?

I've been telling that to people who give cyclists a hard time because "they don't even pay road tax!" doh...

AdrianC

Lit_Up wrote: »

I've been telling that to people who give cyclists a hard time because "they don't even pay road tax!" doh...

Yes, well, they're a special class of eejit all unto themselves...