So it's been confirmed no more tax disc from oct 2014 we up date page 2

[CharlySkunkWeed]

I just bought a car with Tax till December , and using the link in the other thread it says I'm taxed till December , am I taxed till December or do I rip up the disc and pay for new tax ?

 

[Turbokid89]

You are taxed till December but come October you don't need to display it and when your tax runs up in December you just tax it again

But if you had bought the car on the 2nd October you must tax it as off the new law

Hope this helps you

 

[Deezer-D]

Wonder if we will still need to display the MOT disc?

 

[Turbokid89]

Wonder if we will still need to display the MOT disc?

Yes you do but I would say it will not be long till it disappears as well

 

[CharlySkunkWeed]

You are taxed till December but come October you don't need to display it and when your tax runs up in December you just tax it again

But if you had bought the car on the 2nd October you must tax it as off the new law

Hope this helps you

Thanks for clearing that up. Also , I wont bother buying a fancy disc holder now !

 

[AIRFORCE1]

How the fook is a silly old codger like me meant to remember when to tax my cars without discs :-(. This world has gone mad. It sucks :-(

 

[iimm]

How the fook is a silly old codger like me meant to remember when to tax my cars without discs :-(. This world has gone mad. It sucks :-(

Lmfao, I never thought of this! ****!

 

[Turbokid89]

You still get paper reminders in the post I have read some where plus what I do is put it in my phone as a reminder a month before it's up incase I do forget

 

[Gavlar]

They'll announce a nice tax price hike in the Autumn Statement now too, bet my life on it lol

 

[Artoir]

How the fook is a silly old codger like me meant to remember when to tax my cars without discs :-(. This world has gone mad. It sucks :-(

I'll be sticking a post it in the window!

 

[Deezer-D]

How the fook is a silly old codger like me meant to remember when to tax my cars without discs :-(. This world has gone mad. It sucks :-(

Just pay monthly by DD

Direct Debits were designed for the infirm and elderly

 

[Pumesta]

They'll announce a nice tax price hike in the Autumn Statement now too, bet my life on it lol

I can see it going DD only TBH, that way they can increase it by 'only' £2 or £3 a month. Like when they started to price petrol in litres rather than gallons, why when all other motoring measurements are still done in imperial? The answer is simple £1.29 a litre sounds less than almost £6 a gallon

 

[AIRFORCE1]

Just pay monthly by DD

Direct Debits were designed for the infirm and elderly

I don't want to pay by DD tho only thing I pay by DD is my mortgage and associated life insurance. Every other bill I just pay when due.

 

[Coog]

Just pretend its due at the end of each month then.

 

[anlygi]

I'm all for convenience but if these systems are so streamlined does that mean you will get a whole year tax even if you don't tax your car on 1st of any month? Electronic system could just as easily calculate a figure for how many days refund is due too, rather than full calendar months. I can't be arsed reading their bull****. The last and only time I ever sent for a refund I posted it a week before the end of the month first class recorded. They didn't process it for over a week and guess what, I lost another month from the refund. Fooking sharks. Should have refunded based on clear post mark, not their incompetence...

Where are the admin savings going too? Certainly not to defer any planned VED rise in the next budget I'd imagine.

Now to ditch the MOT disc too!

 

[Paddy_R]

I can see it going DD only TBH, that way they can increase it by 'only' £2 or £3 a month. Like when they started to price petrol in litres rather than gallons, why when all other motoring measurements are still done in imperial? The answer is simple £1.29 a litre sounds less than almost £6 a gallon

Most likely an EU (and most places that use km instead of miles) thing as on the continent/austraila etc fuel economy is expressed as litres per 100.

 

[surprising_skoda]

So just to clarify, if you sell a car with a few months tax still on it, you'll receive a cheque for the remainder regardless of whether the disc is left on the car or not?

Not quite. Hidden in the new regs is that you will NOT get your refund until the next owner has taxed it. Or something like that.

Total scam. Any one of us would be hauled up if we instigated anything remotely as inherently extortionate.
"Fraud by deception" is still a crime, right?

 

[stevieturbo]

Total scam. Any one of us would be hauled up if we instigated anything remotely as inherently extortionate.
"Fraud by deception" is still a crime, right?

Everything tax related is criminal extortion or fraud.

But as with all of the biggest crimes...for some reason it's easy for them to get away with it, and they make challenging or fighting against it illegal too. Then try and make out you are the criminal.

 

[Gavlar]

I dunno i can see them making you tax a car everytime you buy rather than switching details. Would be a good easy money maker for them

Feel like I'm psychic, said it back in March lol

 

[lackingBHP]

Car tax should be abolished and put onto fuel. Its not a fair system when a rep doing 30k+ miles a year in a 320d pays only £20 to the upkeep of the roads.

 

[anlygi]

Car tax should be abolished and put onto fuel. Its not a fair system when a rep doing 30k+ miles a year in a 320d pays only £20 to the upkeep of the roads.

I totally agree, it's an unfair system especially when it's based on emissions. I only do around 6k per year and it pisses me off that I pay the same as someone doing 4x that. Someone putting out significantly more co2 pays the same?

 

[johnm]

They'll gain millions on the partial months lost given that a car has to be taxed from the beginning of a month.

Thats exactly it! It's only full months.
You sell a car middle of the month, you loose out on a half a month refund, and the new person has to tax for the full month, and loosing half of it straight away.

That is ******* robbery no matter what way you cook it!

 

[pablo]

can see most deals being done on the last day of the month lol.

 

[Ghisallo]

Car tax should be abolished and put onto fuel. Its not a fair system when a rep doing 30k+ miles a year in a 320d pays only £20 to the upkeep of the roads.

The so called "car tax" has pretty much nothing to do with upkeep of the roads.

 

[JC3]

can see most deals being done on the last day of the month lol.

Or the date of purchase being stated as a few days/weeks earlier to the end of the previous month?