Car Tax 6 months overdue!

AdrianC wrote: »

That's irrelevant. DVLA don't hold insurance details. They do not assume that licence address changes and vehicle address changes go hand-in-hand (even if they definitely know that the keeper and the licence holder are the same person, which they don't always, because you do not have to put your licence number on keeper changes), simply because they aren't always.
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Also there are some father and sons with same name, which vehicle is theirs.

OP the one thing I'd advise you to check is how much is outstanding for unpaid months. People often dont realise these are chased separately (fine for being untaxed & fees owed for untaxed months).

How did this go for you Gary? everything ok? same thing just happened to me, i was sure i set up a Direct Debit for mine but then moved house after a year and half of living there (awful breakup) and must have forgot to update them with new address and its somehow effected my payments with them, so was 4 months overdue (expired in DEC) and i only found out when i got a letter from a debt collection agency!

There was outstanding debt of £120 to be paid which was an £80 penalty and i think £40 back tax (or the other way around!), which I've paid (over the phone directly to the DVLA) and also had to re-tax the vhicle online. It did state:

"Your vehicle will be taxed from 01 April 2018 This vehicle's previous tax/SORN expired on: 01 December 2017. This means the vehicle has not been taxed since this date.
You can apply for vehicle tax from today's date, with a tax start date of the first of this month, however, please note that it is an offence to be the registered keeper of a vehicle that is untaxed and does not have SORN in force. DVLA's enforcement section may be in contact with you regarding this gap in tax."

I assume because I've paid the fine/debt directly to DVLA that its all sorted? I did this before i paid for the tax renewal. The lady on the phone when i paid the fine though said that this would close the matter, does that include this 'enforcement' that refers to the tax online? Or is there a court case (or some other thing) i now need to attend? Never normally been in such a situation, so i have no idea what happens.

inhoping wrote: »

There was outstanding debt of £120 to be paid which was an £80 penalty and i think £40 back tax (or the other way around!), which I've paid (over the phone directly to the DVLA) and also had to re-tax the vhicle online.

Yours would have been different matter to the OP's, the Late Licensing Penalty - s.7A, Vehicles Excise & Registration Act 1994 - which is treated as a civil debt.


The OP's case was the offence of using an unlicensed vehicle - s.29 of the same act, which was dealt with in the magistrate's court.