Vehicle Road Tax......discuss.

[fixitsan]

In theory you should tax it at the time of purchase, with the new keeper supplement, either online or at the post office

In reality the vehicle is legitimately taxed until DVLA are informed by either party that a transaction has occured.

 

If the transfer takes place in the middle of the month then the old keeper loses the last 2 weeks tax, and the new owner loses the first two weeks of the month.  A happy day for DVLA, that month the car as two lots of tax purchased for it. I think we would all like to see something better.

 

I recently bought a bike and asked the owner not to send off the V5 until the end of the month, for this very reason. Legally, I was only trialing the bike for 2 weeks to see if I liked it or not.

This post was last modified: 20-08-2017, 01:11 PM by fixitsan.