New Road Tax Rules

[Andy Banks]

Just been chatting with my local garage and we picked up on all the physical paperwork we collect when getting an MOT and Tax. We talked about the new tax system where you dont get a physical disk to display and he said that it seems not possible to get a refund on car tax when the new rules come in. Is this true? If so if we SORN, we don't get a refund? Seems a bit harsh so wondered if anyone here had more info...

[SootySport]

You can't pass on the tax to a new owner if you sell the car but Refunds? I would have thought that continues.

[Young Pretender]

I'm guessing that if you pay VED monthly you won't ever have a need for a refund - just stop paying when you sorn?  (assuming sorn still possible?)

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Monthly payments usually cost more in other areas. It would be nice if you could have a pro-rata daily rate for refunds.

[jonjh1964]

Comes into effect on 1 Oct 14 with an additional 5% charge if you pay monthly. No mention of any changes to SORN or not being able to get a refund on the gov.uk website. Needs a change to the Law so the final details will be subject to that I suppose.

[dombanks]

cant wait for pay monthly i think its a great idea. if you just buy 6 months you get stung with a charge anyway so i dont see what the difference is.

[Stuart]

At the moment if you pay for a year then SORN after 7 months there's no loading though.

[Wile E. Coyote]

Would be nice if you could pre-buy say 8 months of tax and auto SORN after that.

 

1st of March you're back on the road til the end of Oct...

 

Bet it hasn't been considered/won't happen though.

[Lawrie]

This is what the BBC said a couple of months ago http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25223631 and there doesn't seem any more recent news.

 

In order to catch the dodgers, the DVLA & Police rely on automatic number plate recognition, hence plod gets upset about non standard plates, and I start to worry about the sticky plate on the nose of my pre SVA car.  Has anyone found this a problem yet?

 

I think you'll be able to keep an untaxed car in the street, as long as you don't drive it past a camera up a lamppost or on a gantry, or one of the camera cars drives past. 

 

Those that pay road tax, have used the reporting website 160,000 times http://www.dft.gov.uk/dvla/onlineservices/report_unlicensed.aspx?ext=dg  which helps get rid of dumped cars

[Mark (smokey mow)]

I think you'll be able to keep an untaxed car in the street, as long as you don't drive it past a camera up a lamppost or on a gantry, or one of the camera cars drives past.

if it's untaxed then it's an offence to park the car on the road. The car would need to be declared as SORN and parked off the road such as on the driveway.

[Lawrie]

if it's untaxed then it's an offence to park the car on the road. The car would need to be declared as SORN and parked off the road such as on the driveway.

Yes, but the muppets who do this sort of thing will probably get away with it, as you can only catch them by computer, not an expired piece of paper in the window

[SootySport]

Yes, but the muppets who do this sort of thing will probably get away with it, as you can only catch them by computer, not an expired piece of paper in the window

The untaxed cars parked on a public highway do get picked up by the Police cars with ANPR. There are also a lot of Council and Housing association car parks which technically are not the public highway but as far as the road laws go, parked cars need to be taxed as well.