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Car tax refund issues

Mandy81_UK · 2024-05-30 12:11:41

Sorry if this isn't quite in the right place to post but basically I bought a car in Nov 2023 from a dealer and taxed it on the spot for a year (£180). We filled in all the sale paperwork etc but 2 days later I returned the car due to faults. I asked the dealer guy what would happen to the tax I paid and he told me I would…

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jimjames Posts: 19,031 Forumite

31 May 2024 at 8:13AM

Aylesbury_Duck said:

Mandy81_UK said:

I found out that he had never sent the V5 sale paperwork off so effectively DVLA would never have linked me to the ownership of the car for 2 days.

If the original sale paperwork wasn't sent off, why have DVLA refunded you? They must have you linked to the car.

They must have taxed it using the new keeper part which would take their details even if the V5C wasn't updated

Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
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