No car tax reminder!

nickcc

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

Don't get a reminder about MOT either yet I know when it's due!

ic

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

cjdavies wrote: »

Don't get a reminder about MOT either

But you can...
https://www.gov.uk/mot-reminder

onomatopoeia99

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

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.

Gloomendoom

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

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.

glentoran99

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/15/tycoon-14-makes-2-million-from-first-property-deal-after-startin/

Norman_Castle

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

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

Norman_Castle wrote: »

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

Car_54 wrote: »

Very little post actually goes missing. A disproportionate amount of that seems to be NIPs, PCNs and tax reminders.;)

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