Is car tax transferred when registered keeper changes hands?

Sicard

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

October 2014. This should not be news to you.

It should be if you've been living abroad.

BTW do you have liver problems?

BeenThroughItAll

Laurie_Sicard-Askey wrote: »

It should be if you've been living abroad.

BTW do you have liver problems?

Even living abroad, did you not once pick up a newspaper from the homeland, or read an online news site anytime in 2014?

The VED changes were pretty well discussed, not a big government secret.

Liver problems? I have no idea why you'd ask, but as it happens, yes I do, in the form of Gilbert's Syndrome.

Iceweasel

Laurie_Sicard-Askey wrote: »

It should be if you've been living abroad.

When I lived in Saudi Arabia I knew exactly what was going on in the UK and the rest of the world - and that was before the interweb existed.

Mind you places like Kenya are much further away than Saudi Arabia.

GothicStirling

As far as the DVLA are concerned the owner of the car is the person that it is registered to. Ownership has nothing to do with who paid for the car, and 100% to whose name is on the DVLA's database.

unforeseen

GothicStirling wrote: »

As far as the DVLA are concerned the owner of the car is the person that it is registered to. Ownership has nothing to do with who paid for the car, and 100% to whose name is on the DVLA's database.

DVLA are wrong in so many ways on that assumption. Even they state on the V5 that the name on the V5 is only the RK and not necessarily the owner.

DVLA have no interest in the actual owner as the RK is responsible in law for the the vehicle as far as tax, insurance, MOT etc are concerned.

The only people who seem to be concerned about ownership these days seem to be insurance companies (are you the owner? Are you the RK of the vehicle?) and debt collectors (prove the vehicle is owned by somebody else because the DVLA have you as the RK and we won't take it to service your debt)

Sicard

Iceweasel wrote: »

When I lived in Saudi Arabia I knew exactly what was going on in the UK and the rest of the world - and that was before the interweb existed.

Mind you places like Kenya are much further away than Saudi Arabia.

Good for you. But I do find it odd when people assume everyone knows exactly the same facts as everyone else about everything. It's almost as though we should all be part of the Borg's collective mind. Strange.

Iceweasel

Laurie_Sicard-Askey wrote: »

Good for you. But I do find it odd when people assume everyone knows exactly the same facts as everyone else about everything. It's almost as though we should all be part of the Borg's collective mind. Strange.

It's not strange at all.

It's called 'keeping in touch'

I use the ABC approach -

Assume nothing
Believe nothing
Check everything

Nobody needs to actually know everything - but it's so easy to find out these days - google is your friend.

My best advice to anyone going overseas for a while would be to join an ex-pat forum - otherwise you are putting your head in the sand the longer you stay away.

I know people who have lived outside the UK for 40 years - returning only for holidays and the like - they seem to be in some sort of time warp - they express shock that their nostalgic view of live in the UK no longer exists.

The price of gas & electricity.
Sunday shopping
Pub licencing hours
The price of milk
Child seat-belts
DRLs
Indoor smoking ban

etc etc.

What changes were you surprised at finding on your return to the UK?

bigadaj

Price of milk hasn't changed.

Iceweasel

bigadaj wrote: »

Price of milk hasn't changed.

Exactly - that's the problem - ask any dairy farmer.

Sicard

Iceweasel wrote: »

It's not strange at all.

It's called 'keeping in touch'

I use the ABC approach -

Assume nothing
Believe nothing
Check everything

Nobody needs to actually know everything - but it's so easy to find out these days - google is your friend.

My best advice to anyone going overseas for a while would be to join an ex-pat forum - otherwise you are putting your head in the sand the longer you stay away.

I know people who have lived outside the UK for 40 years - returning only for holidays and the like - they seem to be in some sort of time warp - they express shock that their nostalgic view of live in the UK no longer exists.

The price of gas & electricity.
Sunday shopping
Pub licencing hours
The price of milk
Child seat-belts
DRLs
Indoor smoking ban

etc etc.

What changes were you surprised at finding on your return to the UK?

Very sad.

Just out of curiosity and please don't take this the wrong way, but are/were your parents siblings?