Scrapping The Tax Disc Leads To A Surge In Wheelclamping.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3187683/Scrapping-tax-disc-leads-surge-wheel-clamping-500-drivers-caught-DVLA.html

As I taxed my vehicle on-line yesterday, it got me to thinking, I wonder how many drivers get away without taxing their vehicles, now that the paper tax discs are no longer displayed?

But then I red this, not many it seems, but I wonder why Hereford comes top? One would have thought the Home Counties would have come top, but they don't even make the list.

[andy-hughes]

I really can't see why we can't have the European system - windscreen stickers that show at a glance that a car is both taxed and insured.

The savings for the government in terms of stopping prosecuting uninsured drivers would surely offset the costs involved.

[hc4361]

andy, the car may be insured but the driver may not be, so I can't see the point of that

[ichkeria]

Don't see how having a disc or not would any difference these days Except that as the AA chap points out at the link, presumably there are people who imagine that no tax disc means no check
Which is unfathomably dense

[anotheoldgit]

hc4361

/// andy, the car may be insured but the driver may not be, so I can't see the point of that ///

I understood that the driver did not have to be insured, only the vehicle.

[fiction-factory]

I hope you don't lend your car to uninsured drivers AOG

[hc4361]

I think a lot of these untaxed cars are accidental rather than people trying to dodge paying.
Apparently many people don't realise when they buy a used car they have to tax it themselves even if they bought the car with a valid tax disc.

[ichkeria]

If the car tax is invalid there should be no disc displayed
Every time you buy a car isn't one of the things you check is the tax status?
No sympathy

[anotheoldgit]

fiction-factory

/// I hope you don't lend your car to uninsured drivers AOG ///

What has that got to do with the price of chips?

Might as well say I hope you don't lend your car to a person who doesn't drive".

On can lend their car to almost any driver whose car insurance allows them to drive any car not belonging to them, etc.

[maggiebee]

ichkeria if you are selling your car you reclaim the unused portion of your road tax. It is the responsibility of the new owner to tax the car.

[anotheoldgit]

ichkeria

/// Every time you buy a car isn't one of the things you check is the tax status? ///

Vehicle tax can no longer be transferred when you buy or sell a vehicle.

[maggiebee]

Just said that AOG!!

[hc4361]

And I said it first!

[anotheoldgit]

maggiebee

/// Just said that AOG!! ///

What do you need a medal?

People often post, while others are constructing their replies.

[hc4361]

ichkeria is one of those who would have been clamped had he bought a used car recently

[TTG]

When tax discs were used, it helped me in avoiding parking near untaxed (and probably uninsured) cars at carboot sales!

[THECORBYLOON]

METHYL car tax is paid in complete months so if you have bought a car on the last day of a month, you have to pay a full month to have it on the road for that one day so you get no refund for part months. It's been like that even before the recent change.

[fiction-factory]

I agree with TheCorbyloon, Methyl. Rightly or wrongly, tax has always been based on full months.

AOG- I was responding to your comment: "I understood that the driver did not have to be insured, only the vehicle"

I suspect some cases are due to oversight or not realising that a newly purchased car didn't include the tax but there will be some (probably more than in the past) who think they will take a chance on not being detected.