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VED car taxed second time

eTeRis · 2022-03-08 10:27:22

Hello all, I'm new here, so if my questions has been asked before, please tag the link to it. I'm going to buy a second hand car which had 1 previous owner. The original list price of the car was higher then £40k so I will have to pay tax £155+£335 for the five years. Would be legal to?* Buy the car and tax it for 6 months…

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Grumpy_chap Posts: 19,448 Forumite

9 March 2022 at 7:23PM edited 19 December at 8:30PM

[Deleted User] said:
He'd prefer not to pay it, which is an attitude towards taxes which most of us shere.

Easiest way to avoid taxes is to not have any money.

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