Car Tax rant

intheblacknow

You actually can not buy tax on 27th or 28th of the month before to start on 1st of the following month on the DVLA website. You have to wait until 1st of the month.

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intheblacknow wrote: »

You actually can not buy tax on 27th or 28th of the month before to start on 1st of the following month on the DVLA website. You have to wait until 1st of the month.

Of course you can. I've renewed my tax on the 10th of the month for the start of the next month before.

AdrianC

intheblacknow wrote: »

You actually can not buy tax on 27th or 28th of the month before to start on 1st of the following month on the DVLA website. You have to wait until 1st of the month.

You can renew well in advance of the end of the month. Even if the tax is "new" (change of keeper, or coming off SORN), then you can buy two working days before the end of the month.

sirloyneofcowes

AdrianC wrote: »

You can renew well in advance of the end of the month. Even if the tax is "new" (change of keeper, or coming off SORN), then you can buy two working days before the end of the month.

That's only for renewals though. When there is a change of keeper, they have to buy for the whole of the preceding month. This is how I got caught out, and what started this thread.

AdrianC

sirloyneofcowes wrote: »

That's only for renewals though.

No, the two working days is most certainly for coming off SORN.

I've not taxed any new purchases since the change, but if you SORN it as a new keeper, then try to tax it within two days of the end of the month, I see no reason why that wouldn't be exactly the same.

Brownie651

Its one huge rip off and must be illegal. I tax by direct debit. I Sorned my car on 1st July. You cannot Sorn a car online on any date other than the 1st of the month. Although my car was therefore legally off the road and thus not supposedly taxable the DVLA do not cancel the direct debit until the 2cnd of the month.So I was charged for the whole of July when my car was legally off the road. I was advised by DVLA by phone that this would never happen. Its a clear loophole that must be reaping the DVLA thousands off the motorist. Surely it can be challenged? Any decent software would prevent this happening. The thing to do is drive the car for one month with a Sorn on it. DVLA cant challenge that because their records will show it is taxed.

forgotmyname

You should have sorn'd the car on the 30th of June not the 1st of July.

I sornd my car at the end of the month and had no issues, a refund of the tax arrived within 7 days.

AdrianC

Brownie651 wrote: »

You cannot Sorn a car online on any date other than the 1st of the month.

Yes, you can. You can SORN it on _any_ date of the month.

Awinner2

I pay monthly, I assume in advance. I set up new tax online for a different vehicle, which involved setting up new direct debit,
So having fallen foul of companies cockups with cancelling D/Ds, I cancelled the one set up for my old car, This was earlier this month.
2 days later I got an email from DVLA saying that they had been informed of the DD cancellation by my bank and that I either had to re-tax it, SORN it or let them know who had bought it and that it was an offence if I did nothing.
As I paid on the 1st of September why do they want this information now, when I think this month is paid for. The old vehicle will be taxed by the new owner when I deliver it to them this weekend, at which time I was going to send off the change of registered keeper form to DVLA. I cannot find anything online to clarify this information!
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