V5 form new keeper

M.west

Hi, I’m hoping someone can offer help. About a year and a half ago my partner purchased a second hand car and was just handed a load of old mots and paperwork to go with it. I came to tax it the other day and noticed the form that the previous owner is meant to fill out and send off is in the paperwork. Us being young and naive didn’t realise he should have received all new documents if she’d registered it over to us. She never contacted us or told us to send anything off . I don’t drive so mostly clueless and my partner is just useless with these things and has no clue. We have bought a second hand car before and never received anything then either (and that was from a guy claiming to own a dealership). Obviously the car is taxed, insurances and got mot in his name but no v5 form. I found out you can fill out a v62 form to get it in our name but it’s been a year and a half, are we going to get fined? Or in trouble even though we thought it was up to the previous owners to change it? Help please

just_trying

Why would you get fined if you've been paying the tax, if by direct debit presumably. Just fill in the form to put it in your name which it should already be, being young blah, blah is no excuse.

M.west

Yes of course we’ve been paying the tax but we never receive a reminder or anything, I just do it using the V5C new keeper slip. I just assumed we would get fined as it says on the form the previous owner should have sent off that it obviously has to be filled out and changed to the new owner and I’ve read others say they have been fined for similar situations. No being young isn’t an excuse but unfortunately these aren’t really things anyone explains to you and as I don’t drive I’ve never needed to read or fill out these things and the only other experience I’ve had with these things the seller (dealership owner) only gave us a new keepers slip and said that was all we needed to fill out and keep. I apologise for not knowing and actually asking for advice or experiences.

just_trying

Well if you've been paying it just send in the v62, and it'll be in your name. You can't be fined if you've been paying the tax, the v5 may have been lost in the post. Just send it in you'll be fine ( though you should have done this ages ago).

Marvel1

M.west wrote: »

I came to tax it the other day and noticed the form that the previous owner is meant to fill out and send off is in the paperwork.

Send in the V5C with a letter saying you taxed the vehicle since you had it a year and half ago - otherwise the previous keeper may l receive the refund of vehicle tax and you will be untaxed and will to tax it again.

forgotmyname

How have you taxed a car not registered to you?

M.west

We have the v5c new keepers slip, gov car tax website just need the car registration and a code off the slip and it’s done. Thanks

forgotmyname

After the 1st tax expired you would have needed the code from the reminder slip.

M.west

I’ve always just followed what the gov website says, it asks what paperwork you have, I tick the new keepers slip and it just asks for the reg and code off the slip. Always done it that way and it confirms and says it’s taxed so it must work

AdrianC

forgotmyname wrote: »

After the 1st tax expired you would have needed the code from the reminder slip.

Unless it was done online via DD, then it continues automatically.