Taxing a car as new keeper

motorguy

Tammykitty wrote: »

That's my point - buy a new car on a Saturday, and you can't actually use it to the Monday in NI.


I admit to haven driven a new car from the garage or seller to home or an open post office - but this is the only journey I will do without tax, and is actually illegal - but very hard to avoid here.


The only legal way to do it is to leave your new car with the seller or garage while someone else drives you to the post office to tax it.

You're over thinking it and over engineering a solution.

There is not a mission if you buy a car on a Saturday evening, drive it home, drive it over the weekend and then tax it on the Monday you're going to get a fine.

IF by some fluke you did, you would simply write a return letter saying car bought saturday eve, (demonstrable by the previous owner having sent in the V5C dated for change of ownership for that day) and demonstrable that you taxed it at the first opportunity to cover the full period of ownership. End of story.

Cherryscone

When I bought The Car I have I went and got Insurance the same day I tried to tax the car with The green New owner online and could not do it I rang swansea who said the previous Keeper had told them via a phone call he had sold the car and That was why I could not Tax it so I had to wait for the new v5 which was out within 3 days I still had my old car at this time .

samanthani

I know this post is nearly a year old, but the issue doesn't seem to have been resolved. My daughter has just bought a car and is now having problems trying to tax it at a post office after 5.30pm.

Incidently, I bought a vehicle a in 2016 from a private seller. I drove it home, parked it on the drive and taxed it when I could - for the whole month, which covered the day I bought it. The camera on Saintfield Road spotted me driving home, and a couple of weeks later I got a letter from DVA saying I'd driven without tax and I owed a fine. I contacted them and explained what had happened, but they insisted that I should have taxed the car before driving home, and I did have to pay the fine. I can't remember how much it was - think it was around the £60 to £80 mark - annoying but not going to break the bank (I'm not rich btw!), just clarifying that it was nowhere near the maximum (£1000).

Cherryscone

No It Is a Nightmare Since that last post I changed my car well I have half price tax you cant tax Disabled at any Post Office In NI only If Its totally free Enhanced I ended up paying for 6 Months as My tax is Expensive PO told me they Have no way of doing It even though It says on The DVLA you can .The whole Taxing System needs looked at again

spo2

I bought a new car recently, asked the garage i bought it from to tax it for me and i phoned my insurance company the day before to let them know the date to switch insurance. Absolutely hassle free

Cherryscone

spo2 wrote: »

I bought a new car recently, asked the garage i bought it from to tax it for me and i phoned my insurance company the day before to let them know the date to switch insurance. Absolutely hassle free

How ?
as Tax no longer comes on cars the new Owner needs to tax It

spo2

Cherryscone wrote: »

How ?
as Tax no longer comes on cars the new Owner needs to tax It

I didn't ask :rotfl: but I did check online that it was taxed OK, and it was

ooo000ooo

If you're buying a brand new car, most dealers/manufacturers automatically give you a couple of days free insurance which allows the dealers to tax the car ready for you to drive off the forecourt. Wife has bought a couple of new Toyotas from Charles Hurst over the last couple of years and this is how Toyota deal with it.

spo2

ooo000ooo wrote: »

If you're buying a brand new car, most dealers/manufacturers automatically give you a couple of days free insurance which allows the dealers to tax the car ready for you to drive off the forecourt. Wife has bought a couple of new Toyotas from Charles Hurst over the last couple of years and this is how Toyota deal with it.

This sounds familiar actually, I think they did use their own insurance for a day or two to cover something