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my car tax ran out on the 31st of december, if i re-tax today online am i still able to use my car as i'm waiting on a tax disc?
any help appreciated ;D
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I'm waiting for the PO to open tommorow. You can do it online with log book number and MOT number, they check the insurance. www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/Is it safe to drive your car today without tax? |
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If I remember right, they recently introduced 7 or 14 days "grace" to drive about with an out of date disk if you're waiting for the disk to arrive, but I think you only got it if you'd applied for the tax disk before the previous one expired.
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Last Edit: Jan 2, 2011 12:24:48 GMT by cobblers
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and they check its MOT'd too.
mine ran out too but i taxed it last week
and received it before xmas.
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That said, it's only a £30 fixed penalty notice for failure to display the disk if they notice (The car would presumably come up on ANPR as taxed so it wouldn't attract any attention) and I've been "caught" and let off with doing it twice (one time the disk had blown out of the window, and the other time I just forgot to put it in the car)
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crazymonkey
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it should only take a couple of days for the tax disc to reach you anyway.
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stealthstylz
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I think you might have a fine coming if you're unlucky as you have left a gap between the car running out of tax and re-taxing it. By law it should be SORN'd for that period.
Matt
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I think you might have a fine coming if you're unlucky as you have left a gap between the car running out of tax and re-taxing it. By law it should be SORN'd for that period. Matt for 2 days? |
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ive had cars untaxed for more than 2 days before ive re-taxed them, and ive never had any hastle.
dvla mite be bastards, but fine's for 2 days is abit prompt even for them!
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I think you might have a fine coming if you're unlucky as you have left a gap between the car running out of tax and re-taxing it. By law it should be SORN'd for that period. Matt for 2 days? In theory yes but unlikely anyone will have noticed.  Like slacker said you'd have to be pretty luckless to get gripped for it tho. |
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Last Edit: Jan 2, 2011 14:33:53 GMT by DavidB
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I think you might have a fine coming if you're unlucky as you have left a gap between the car running out of tax and re-taxing it. By law it should be SORN'd for that period. Matt Not if you are taxing back to the date the tax expired, which he will be |
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They process the fines for SORN late in the month, and IIRC they process the previous month's non-respondents then anyway, so you could probably get away with maybe 6 weeks late taxing so long as you back tax to the point of the old disc expiring.
This information is possibly out of date now... Don't rely on it for 6 weeks... But 2 days? should be fine.
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cheers chaps gonna just go post office on tuesday and sort it as usual ;D
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AMG-Al
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I was late in taxing 2 JCB's in November and all I got was a wee reminder letter from the DVLA. I think as long as you backdate the tax you wont get any grief.
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mine was nearly a month late and no grief, wouldn't want to push to 6 weeks though |
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As Amgal says, you tend to get a little reminder letter from them nowadays before the fine. Even before that, they seemed to give you some sort of grace period as I've forgotten and done it a few weeks later without consequence, even though a message would come up on the website giving you a ticking off and saying that you "may" hear from them. Dunno what I'd hear other than the SORN fine being frisbeed across the room.
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marksparks999
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but the offence dealt with by Police is 'FAILING TO DISPLAY' which is an absolute offence... so irrellevant if you have it on the mantelpiece at home, or if its in the post!
However despite the thoughts of some on here, Police are human too, hence discretion having been used towards some!
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re-taxing onlinepoproddernot
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taken from direct-gov website. " I have not received the tax disc. Can I use the vehicle without the tax disc displayed?" When you apply for a tax disc online or by using our phone service you are able to legally continue to drive your vehicle for up to 5 days after the tax disc has expired while you wait for the new tax disc to arrive. This will only apply when you have applied for a new tax disc before the current one expires. You should continue to display the expired disc on your vehicle, until the new one arrives. www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/application? |
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Last Edit: Jan 3, 2011 12:29:22 GMT by poproddernot
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Like slacker said you'd have to be pretty luckless to get gripped for it tho. 
