Online Car Taxing

[tamaris]

I have tried with two different visa cards to tax my car today and it says the cards are invalid.I know they are not as I use them often and they are in date. I normally do it this way what is going wrong ?

[tamaris]

I'm a bit confused as it runs out the end of this month but I had my mot

done on the 2nd August last year and was told not to do it before the 4 th next time.

[fiction-factory]

Are you trying to pay with debit card or credit card?
I'm assuminh it's the genuine gov site and not one in a phishing email

[tamaris]

Debit card.

[Hopkirk]

I'm confused by your reference to the MOT. Have you had it tested?

[-SharonA-]

Taxed mine easily the other week. Are you using Gov UK site???
It's fairly easy.

[Hopkirk]

I suspect that if your MOT is about to run out, that might be the problem, not the cards.

[hc4361]

Tamaris, you can get your car MOTd one month before it is due, you would get a '13 month' MOT so it wouldn't expire earlier. You can MOT it now.

[jno]

Hopkirk, surely it wouldn't say the card was invalid even if the MOT was? (And the MOT isn't, it still has weeks to run.)

[elliemay1]

Do you live in N.I, tamaris?
My husband had the same problem

[tamaris]

I live in England. Disregard ref to mot. It should still let me tax it as not ran out yet. Yes On the proper government site as I say I've done it online before. Just won't accept either of my debit cards. Very odd.

[Hopkirk]

Will your current MOT still be valid on the first of August?

I know it seems as though the card is being refused, but it just might be failing for a different reason.

You must have an MOT valid for the day the tax is to start.

[zebo]

At the start of last November I received the reminder about road tax, yes I know it's called something else but I'm old, went on line and paid it. Mid December I got another letter, lots of red writing. it was my last chance to tax my car! When I checked the bank it hadn't gone through but I definitely didn't see anything about card being invalid, should have checked for the email I know.
We had a problem paying the balance on a holiday, the company were saying that the card wasn't valid, the bank was asking us to ring fraud. Apparently they had clocked it as a suspicious transaction, we don't use the credit cards much.