Excise duty and changing ownership

Wyrley49

I will shortly swapping vehicles with my daughter, will do this online. Do I need to tax the new vehicle before changing ownership(also online) or do I change ownership first? I know I can’t drive the new vehicle before it’s taxed, but can I tax it before it’s in my ownership? Many thanks.

angrycrow

You tax it with the new keeper slip reference after the change of keeper. If you do the change of keeper online you get the new v5 in a few days.

owen_money

change ownership first

Car_54

owen_money wrote: »

change ownership first

How do they change ownership?
They can change registered keepers, which doesn’t mean ownership, but is there any point?

TooManyPoints

You will each pay twice for a month's duty. The tax is cancelled upon a change of registered keeper (RK). Only full unexpired months are refunded and duty must be paid from the 1st of the month. If you change RKs on the 5th of November you will both receive unexpired duty from the 1st December but both cars will have to be taxed from 1st November meaning you will both pay for November twice.

Wyrley49

Thanks toomanypoints so I transfer the registered keeper first then tax the new vehicle?

Ectophile

Changing the registered keeper immediately cancels any tax left on it. The last keeper gets a refund for unused (whole) months. Then the new keeper must tax it.


So renewing the tax and then changing the keeper just results in a big refund to the old keeper. And an un-taxed vehicle.

Mutton_Geoff

TooManyPoints wrote: »

You will each pay twice for a month's duty. The tax is cancelled upon a change of registered keeper (RK). Only full unexpired months are refunded and duty must be paid from the 1st of the month. If you change RKs on the 5th of November you will both receive unexpired duty from the 1st December but both cars will have to be taxed from 1st November meaning you will both pay for November twice.

Not if they transfer registered keeper on the last day of the month then tax the car from the 1st.

owen_money

Car_54 wrote: »

How do they change ownership?
They can change registered keepers, which doesn’t mean ownership, but is there any point?

Ok, registered keeper, !!!!!!.

AdrianC

owen_money wrote: »

Ok, registered keeper, !!!!!!.

I think you might be missing his point...

If the cars are simply being swapped over between family members, why even bother changing RK? Just change the insurance.

Wyrley49

Best to change over don’t want any speeding fines risked.