New Tax Scheme..... WTF DVLA!

[Dwighty]

So got a letter through the post with my v5c saying vehicle is no longer taxed and as a new keeper I need to tax it before I can drive it (which I was expecting), but when I went to tax it online as advised by the same documentation a message came up saying "due to new NI insurance legislation New keepers must apply at the post office for vehicle tax..."
So I now have a car which is technically not taxed, but have no way to tax until Monday!!
Also what happens when you decide to buy a second hand car....You rock up with your cash to collect the car, pay for it, but then are unable to drive home cause it is not taxed?

Who came up with this idea, was it someone perhaps who has never owned a car or bought one second hand?

[Marty]

The post office this way are open on a Saturday can you not do it tomorrow?

You get an overlap when buying a car when I bought my Evo on the Thursday the beginning of a new month was on the Saturday so the seller did not send log book of till the Friday so I taxed it the Saturday and did not loose a month I just drove it around on the tax that was on it.

[Dwighty]

The post office this way are open on a Saturday can you not do it tomorrow?

You get an overlap when buying a car when I bought my Evo on the Thursday the beginning of a new month was on the Saturday so the seller did not send log book of till the Friday so I taxed it the Saturday and did not loose a month I just drove it around on the tax that was on it.

I'm working tomorrow.

It says you can do it by phone, but I doubt if it's a freephone number with a person at the end of the line and no queue

[Marty]

Can you not pop out from work or you got anyone who can go do it for you

[Dwighty]

It's just a backwards system

[Marty]

It's just a backwards system [emoji107]

Welcome to the UK 2015

[Dwighty]

It's just a backwards system [emoji107]

Welcome to the UK 2015

It's the kind of thing my managers at work would come up with

[Marty]

The council use to have a good clause in the safety manual for the use of a ladder.

"All ladders must be tied at the top before climbing"



My grandad worked for the council for years as a painter and he often laughed about it they soon removed it from the revisions as you have to climb it to tie it.

[Pinkie15]

The council use to have a good clause in the safety manual for the use of a ladder.

"All ladders must be tied at the top before climbing"



My grandad worked for the council for years as a painter and he often laughed about it they soon removed it from the revisions as you have to climb it to tie it.

This was amusing, until you get to the end to find you had to explain it. Really

[Marty]

The council use to have a good clause in the safety manual for the use of a ladder.

"All ladders must be tied at the top before climbing"



My grandad worked for the council for years as a painter and he often laughed about it they soon removed it from the revisions as you have to climb it to tie it.

This was amusing, until you get to the end to find you had to explain it. Really

This is the Internet we are on and some things you have to explain in simple terms to people I try to cater for all

[Jinxy1]

It's another one of those traditional British rip-offs. Road fund is no longer transferable with the sale of a vehicle. So, if you buy a vehicle part way through a month, you need to tax the vehicle from the minute you buy it. The seller will get a rebate of any full months remaining on the current tax, but no rebate of a part month. Also, if the seller only bought a six month tax disc, he'll only get a refund on the actual road fund, not on the extra paid.

Legally, a vehicle is not taxed from the minute the seller signs the V5C.

Therefore, the DVLA could, potentially gain thousands through the double taxation of vehicles when they're bought. That, combined with the savings on the printing of tax discs, amounts to a tidy penny. Will we see a reduction in road tax? Methinks not!

I also wouldn't put it past the sneaky beggars to have some sort of system in place that flags up a change of registration number on insurance policies and matches them against the purchase of road fund. With the exception of NI (apparently, they can't check for new insurance in NI on line), road fund can be bought on line or by phone (it's an 0300 number so not freephone) 24/7 using the new keeper bit of the V5C, so they won't take any excuses.

Basically, if you've still got tax on it, only sell a vehicle towards the end of a month!

[fridge85]

The council use to have a good clause in the safety manual for the use of a ladder.

"All ladders must be tied at the top before climbing"



My grandad worked for the council for years as a painter and he often laughed about it they soon removed it from the revisions as you have to climb it to tie it.

I was a window cleaner for several years and on 1 of the health and safety courses they admitted to a chupa chup up with ladder laws many years ago, it stated that you must have 4 points of contact when working of a ladder, guessing there wasn't much work getting done while that was in power

Sorry for the off topic post Dwighty.

But seriously wtf is this new law about really