Taxing a Used Car

Inner_Zone

RTNI wrote: »

So no matter what time of the day I collect the car I will have to drive it to a post office without tax!

Unless I am reading this wrong?

No you walk, take a bus etc, tax the car then drive it.

Inner_Zone

D.A. wrote: »

So, presumably if I was buying a car on the mainland, I would go to a Post Office over there with my insurance certificate and they would be able to tax it, correct?

Seems like yet another area where residents of NI get shafted...

No, insurance certificate is no longer required at the PO. They will tax it with the V5 new keeper section and payment no other paperwork required to be produced.

Old_Git

Inner_Zone wrote: »

No, insurance certificate is no longer required at the PO. They will tax it with the V5 new keeper section and payment no other paperwork required to be produced.

so how do the post office know you have insurance if you have no insurance cert.

Inner_Zone

Old_Git wrote: »

so how do the post office know you have insurance if you have no insurance cert.

Either they check online automatically or they don't check. I don't work for them so you need to ask them. At the end of the day if the PO taxes the car and there is no insurance the DVLA will no doubt let the registered keeper know. I taxed my new to me car at a local PO to the seller and was told the insurance certificate was not needed and was actually refused by the PO staff member.

RTNI

Inner_Zone wrote: »

No, insurance certificate is no longer required at the PO. They will tax it with the V5 new keeper section and payment no other paperwork required to be produced.

This doesn't seem to be the case in Northern Ireland. Proof of insurance is required here for taxing at the post office (or at least this is what I have been told)

RTNI

motorguy wrote: »

This isnt the "big issue" you might think.

Drive it to the post office (or as soon as you possibly can) and get it taxed for the correct period.

Where people fall foul is when they buy a car today, 25th Apr, then drive about until 1st May then tax it from the start of the month, not realising they were picked up on a camera on 26th Apr.

Thanks Paul,

I'll drop in to the post office mid morning on Friday on the way home from work to get it taxed.

molerat

This is a Northern Ireland specific thread. In NI you still need an insurance cert to tax a vehicle at the post office.

http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/information-and-services/motoring/owning-a-vehicle/vehicle-tax-and-registration-from-21-july-2014/getting-vehicle-tax-or-declaring-a-vehicle-off-the-road.htm

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax

cliffsgirl

I bought a new car Friday. Taxed it at the post office I needed the insurance certificate and mot certificate.

snowmen

Inner_Zone wrote: »

No you walk, take a bus etc, tax the car then drive it.

That's exactly what I was going to say.
If your insurance isn't valid until you tax the car then use another mode of transport to get to where you need to be to tax it.
Otherwise if you have an accident on the way to tax the car you are uninsured.


Exactly what I had to do the last time I bought a car.

Milko

Taxed my "new to me" car last week & needed Insurance, MOT & V5C/2


You'll only be driving without TAX if the previous owner has already surrendered theirs or if the car was Sorn. Don't be panicking over a day or two as you'll still be Taxing the car back to the start of whatever month you've bought the car & likewise the previous keeper will be losing that same months tax ... Another government cash cow