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forgotten to renew car tax
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if im 3 days late in renewing my car tax is it an absolutely dead cert fine ?or is there a way of avoiding any fine .thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It's highly unlikely that the DVLA will chase people for a three-day delay - that can be the result of our totally inadequate postal system - and that's the excuse you should use if they do come for you. They are far more likely to put their resources into catching habitual defaulters with months or years of unpaid tax to recover, so I wouldn't panic too much this time.
I recently realised my car tax was nearly a month overdue- no particular reason, just stupidity on my part- and rang the DVLA. They just said to go to your local DVLA office before the end of the month and I got my new disc with no problems. I'm assuming that if I'd done it after the end of the month there would've been a fine.