Crosswords1 min ago
Car Tax Timing
I have two questions....
It occured to me ten minutes ago that my car tax runs out tonight so as the post office will be closed I have renewed it online. Obviously the car is now taxed but would I get into any trouble for not displaying a current tax disc in the window for the next few days?
Secondly, December is not a great month to be forking out £100 quid on tax. Come June, I never seem to be able to afford the £200 to tax it for 12 months, which would avoid me having to renew it in December. Could I tax it early, say in November without losing out on anything?
It occured to me ten minutes ago that my car tax runs out tonight so as the post office will be closed I have renewed it online. Obviously the car is now taxed but would I get into any trouble for not displaying a current tax disc in the window for the next few days?
Secondly, December is not a great month to be forking out £100 quid on tax. Come June, I never seem to be able to afford the £200 to tax it for 12 months, which would avoid me having to renew it in December. Could I tax it early, say in November without losing out on anything?
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I understood from a question a few weeks back that there are no grace days applying to car tax! We usually pay for ours a couple of weeks ahead of expiry, that way you don't lose out on the term.
I know it's hard but couldn't you save £20 a month between now and June, milly, so you'd have the extra to pay the £200 in June?
We've tried to space ours so the insurance comes in one half of the year and the tax in the other, but my MOT comes at the same time as my insurance, and we have to pay for residents' car parking in our street too - triple whammy!
I know it's hard but couldn't you save £20 a month between now and June, milly, so you'd have the extra to pay the £200 in June?
We've tried to space ours so the insurance comes in one half of the year and the tax in the other, but my MOT comes at the same time as my insurance, and we have to pay for residents' car parking in our street too - triple whammy!
My car tax runs out at the end of April but I always renew it in person at the PO about three weeks beforehand. I think that's the earliest you can do it. It might be easier to renew on-line but going to the PO once a year in early to mid-December is no hardship. Having the disc ready at home would obviously avoid this problem at the time the disc runs out.
I think 'Failure to display' is a seperate offence, regardless of whether you have tax or not. Your car might be taxed but if you choose to leave the disc at home rather than display it in the car that is an offence. You must always display a valid disc in the windscreen.
I think 'Failure to display' is a seperate offence, regardless of whether you have tax or not. Your car might be taxed but if you choose to leave the disc at home rather than display it in the car that is an offence. You must always display a valid disc in the windscreen.
Andyvon, from my point of view it's so much easier to renew on-line - you don't have dig out your insurance certificate, MOT and log book, all you need is your reminder document (or if they don't send it, just the log book) - all the checks for your vehicle happen on-line during the application process. Takes five minutes, no queuing, no refiling of documents afterwards.
Boxtops - I take the point. I'm one of those conservative people who's always about 5 years behind most others but once I've discovered the New Order there's no stopping me! I was the same with computers, then the Internet, then on-line shopping etc. Once I've discovered what everyone else was raving about I end up wondering why on Earth I didn't join them earlier! I'm sure I'll buy my tax on-line one day - then I'll wonder why I ever queued up at the Post Office!
Hopkirk is correct but in reality they can tell if you are taxed/insured/MOT'd from your number plate so unless you get jobsworth copper of he week it'll be no problem.
If you can try and buy a year at a time if you get 6 months ou pay a huge penalty percentage wise. I always have my mot/insurance around 6 months apart so I don;t have to rush around like the proverbial blue ar5e fly when the tax becomes due.
If you can try and buy a year at a time if you get 6 months ou pay a huge penalty percentage wise. I always have my mot/insurance around 6 months apart so I don;t have to rush around like the proverbial blue ar5e fly when the tax becomes due.
