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Taxing a vehicle part way through the month.

Hi all,

To clear up a matter for a friend of mine.

If he taxes his motorbike half way through the month, do they charge for the whole month or from the day that he taxes it?

I was always under the impression we are charged from the day we tax the vehicle and not from the 1st of the month.

Refunds I know are a different matter as they only refund you for full unused months of tax but I wasn't clean on actually purchasing mid way through a month.

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  • Posts: 5,555 Forumite
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    You'll be charged from the 1st of the month in which you tax it. 

    Vehicle excise duty goes to the end of every calendar month. So if you first tax it on the 15th, you'll be charged from the 1st. There are no 'part-months'.
  • Posts: 4,961 Forumite
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    The only exception is for brand new vehicles - they can have some days added.
  • Posts: 13,797 Forumite
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    It's from the 1st of the month.
    (Plus if you're buying the car, the outgoing owner pays up to the end of the month, so it's double-taxed.)
  • Posts: 4,398 Forumite
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    It has always been from the 1st of the month no matter what day you start it. It has been that way for decades.
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    prowla said:
    It's from the 1st of the month.
    (Plus if you're buying the car, the outgoing owner pays up to the end of the month, so it's double-taxed.)
    prowla said:
    It's from the 1st of the month.
    (Plus if you're buying the car, the outgoing owner pays up to the end of the month, so it's double-taxed.)
    That's ultra-sneaky!
    Now a gainfully employed bassist again - WooHoo!
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    marlot said:
    The only exception is for brand new vehicles - they can have some days added.
    Any evidence for that?
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    Car_54 said:
    Any evidence for that?
    I’ve always bought new cars at the end of the month for maximum bargaining power - so they’ve always come with a year and a week of tax. Sorry road fund licence or whatever it is called today.
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    Car_54 said:
    Any evidence for that?
    The first registration tax a few days before the month starts has always been A Thing.

    Popular rumour has it that if you change keeper, or remove SORN in the last 3 days of the month, when you pay tax it starts from the 1st of the next month, but no-one tries it as you need to be desperate to drive the car right now to throw away 28 days tax money!

    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
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    I’ve always bought new cars at the end of the month for maximum bargaining power - so they’ve always come with a year and a week of tax. Sorry road fund licence or whatever it is called today.
    It's Vehicle Tax - nothing to do with roads since April 1937.
    Clever Mr Churchill wanted the money for military purposes against Mr Hitler, who seemed to be posing a threat at the time.
  • Posts: 8,727 Forumite
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    Iceweasel said:
    It's Vehicle Tax - nothing to do with roads since April 1937.
    Clever Mr Churchill wanted the money for military purposes against Mr Hitler, who seemed to be posing a threat at the time.
    Clever Mr Churchill actually abolished the link with roads in about 1926, when he was Chancellor, and long before re-armament. And no-one here had heard of Herr Hitler,

    When the "Road Fund Licence" was eventually renamed VED, Mr C was no longer in government.

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