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

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

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  • AdrianC
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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...
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