50% car tax disability reduction

Bex_123

Just realised this morning that I’ve been overpaying car tax since 2018 and I’m cross.  If you get complete exemption from car tax because of claiming higher rate mobility on PIP, DVLA change your V5C.

if however, you get standard mobility on PIP, you are expected to claim by post every year.  I sent them the first evidence in 2017.  You don’t get reminded that you need to do it every year with your notification of car tax being due and I don’t get this anymore anyway because of DVLA encouraging people to use automatic renewal.  I’ve written to DVLA but my hopes are low. 

bazdvd

did you not notice you were paying double each year? Claiming every year is standard and what everyone entitled to the discount has to do.

Bex_123

bazdvd said:

did you not notice you were paying double each year? Claiming every year is standard and what everyone entitled to the discount has to do.

To my shame, no I didn’t.  It never occurred to me.  That is one of the reasons I am cross (with myself):   I’m not normally so stupid about these things.  But it seems a completely antiquated and stupid administrative system that needs you to do that anyway - especially when all the emphasis from DVLA is to do things online or automatically.

poppy12345

As advised on another thread the V5C taxation class has never changed for 50% reduction. Documents always have to be sent off to claim the 50% each year. Despite PIP starting 10 years ago they've never changed the way you claim the reduction.

MouldyOldDough

People have been sucessful in claiming backdated car tax overpaid by way of a refund - so write to DVLA and ask / beg !

Dollylonglegs

Please can anyone confirm if trying to claim 50% off car tax for a disabled driver is actually possible prior to the tax running out? This is my 2nd year of trying and it seems an impossible task.  I followed their instructions to the letter sending all the original documents as requested, recorded delivery, at £9 to my personal expense only for them to send everything back, rather than pick up the phone and request something else.  It arrived on a Saturday so i have been unable to do anything about it over the weekend.  Now i am so stressed which is having a detrimental effect on my current ill health.  I can not turn it around in the time so i will now have to find and pay the full amount and another £9 to send all information back to them for fear of the documents getting lost as the tax runs out at the end of the month.  This is another trip back to the post office.  It seems being disabled, yet again we are punished/penalised and have to jump through hoops.  Why can't post offices have on their system the 50% reduction for disabled drivers and not just the full cost or zero cost for car tax?
Does anyone else find this frustrating and unfair and is there a simpler way round it?
No wonder they don't advertise it!