Buying used car from dealer but no road tax

spiritus

I'm about to take ownership of a user car from a main dealer on Tuesday and noticed online that the road tax for this vehicle was due in October 2018 (car was registered Sept 2017).

I believe I need to get the car taxed and insured before I can drive it home but would I need to back pay the road tax from Oct 2018 ??

Is that reasonable ?

Thanks

alan_d

No, you will tax it from the day you buy it, for the complete month.
EG, you buy today, you will be buying tax from 1st March onwards.

MovingForwards

No, you buy the tax backdated to 1 March.

flicks

Hi,

No, not at all. The car has presumably been off the road and as such no tax is required.

You will pay to tax the vehicle when you collect it, (unless of course it's zero rated).

Depending on when you collect the car you may have to pay an additional month for the benefit of a few days but you certainly won't need to pay from October. The car is only just about to become your responsibility.

DoaM

flicks wrote: »

You will pay to tax the vehicle when you collect it, (unless of course it's zero rated).

OP would still "pay" to tax it - just that the amount paid would be £0.00

Fruitcake

As others have said, it needs to be taxed from the beginning of the month in which it is purchased.
Road fund is no longer transferrable so even if the vehicle had been taxed until say next December, the new owner would still have to tax it from the beginning of this month.

wymondham

Did you take it for a test drive out of interest?

nickcc

wymondham wrote: »

Did you take it for a test drive out of interest?

Every road test I've been on has been on the dealers trade plates which covers the road fund licence.

foxy-stoat

spiritus wrote: »

I believe I need to get the car taxed and insured before I can drive it home but would I need to back pay the road tax from Oct 2018 ??

Is that reasonable ?

Why would you think you are liable to pay the VED on a vehicle for 5 months before you have owed it?

Mercdriver

foxy-stoat wrote: »

Why would you think you are liable to pay the VED on a vehicle for 5 months before you have owed it?

They likely did a gov.uk search on the reg number to check MOT and RFL, I'm guessing, as that would show when the car was taxed until

foxy-stoat

Mercdriver wrote: »

They likely did a gov.uk search on the reg number to check MOT and RFL, I'm guessing, as that would show when the car was taxed until

Agreed, but why would they think they would be responsible for the VED prior to them buying the car?