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No car tax reminder!

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  • nickcc
    nickcc Posts: 2,265 Forumite
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    Direct Debit for me, anything for an easier life. Would be different if you could find a cheaper alternative and easy enough to cancel if you need to.
  • Marvel1
    Marvel1 Posts: 7,478 Forumite
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    Don't get a reminder about MOT either yet I know when it's due!
  • ic
    ic Posts: 3,500 Forumite
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    As above - set up a direct debit, either paid monthly or annually. At the end of the day its a bill you can't avoid - and it'll automatically be cancelled if you ever sell the car.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    cjdavies wrote: »
    Don't get a reminder about MOT either
    But you can...
    https://www.gov.uk/mot-reminder
  • onomatopoeia99
    onomatopoeia99 Posts: 7,212 Forumite
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    Is it common for tax reminder letters to go missing (or not be sent)?
    It happens. To me twice - once I caught it, the other I didn't and got the 'fine'. On that occasion I wrote them back a stroppy letter saying if they introduced direct debit payments this wouldn't happen, and they told me direct debit was impossible.

    Anyway, nowadays I pay by "impossible" direct debit so don't have to remember.
    Proud member of the wokerati, though I don't eat tofu.Home is where my books are.Solar PV 5.2kWp system, SE facing, >1% shading, installed March 2019.Mortgage free July 2023
  • Gloomendoom
    Gloomendoom Posts: 16,551 Forumite
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    Just had a snotty reminder letter from DVLA that I hadn’t taxed the car by 1st March... no reminder here, obviously when car tax included a disk it was fairly obvious when it is due.

    A couple of times I bought the disc and then forgot to put it in the window. I drove around a for a year with an expired disc and only realised when I went to put the following year's disc in.
  • Norman_Castle
    Norman_Castle Posts: 11,871 Forumite
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    Is it common for tax reminder letters to go missing (or not be sent)?
    If you agree to pay by annual dd no paper reminder is sent.
  • Car_54
    Car_54 Posts: 9,021 Forumite
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    If you agree to pay by annual dd no paper reminder is sent.

    Unless the amount to be paid has changed, in which case they must notify you in advance.
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
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    edited 19 December at 8:30PM
    [quote=[Deleted User];74046633]Very little post actually goes missing. A disproportionate amount of that seems to be NIPs, PCNs and tax reminders.;)[/QUOTE]


    Maybe lots goes missing but only those with an adverse consequence get noticed?:cool:
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