Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
DVLA the new road tax....theft or what?
I recently bought a used car. I had to tax it for the month of January tho it was already taxed. DVLA say you have to tax the vehicle immediately as it's the person not the vehicle now. It seems to me then that both I and the previous owner have paid to tax it for the same month so that DVLA received an additional months tax, since the previous owner cannot claim back an incomplete month. I have emailed DVLA to challenge what appears to be sharp practice but only receive a link to the FAQ page and a further challenge has been ignored. Any ideas?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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There has been a lot about this on various motoring forums / motoring magazines.
It seems there is no way out.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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I can't get too exercised about this, with so many cars attracting low rates of car tax - £20/£30 a year (less than £2/£3 for that overlapping month) is less than one tankful of fuel, never mind the £0 rate cars. For most London drivers I'd suggest the running costs are, in order, fuel, insurance, servicing, tyres, then car tax. Oh, not forgetting depreciation.
Time was when you bought a new car, as well as paying Purchase Tax you paid an extra 10% tax on top of the purchase price, simply because it was a car you were buying. Now that IS a significant car tax.
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My road tax is £300 a year. This kind of Greenwash pisses me off. People who can afford new cars pay far less than people who have old ones. Of course the manufacture of a new car uses huge amount of energy and is highly polluting...
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A used car springs into existence pollution-free, then. Mind you, if you want a tax-free older car, those over 40 years old are exempt
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my point was that maintaining a used car is far more environmentally friendly than making another one....
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Eh no, Cuba is an outstanding example of the world's most powerful country blockading one of the poorest because they got fed up with being a brothel, drug base and run by the Mafia.
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I hope you avoided the trouble described in this article, then - DVLA's impounding charges for inadvertently wrongly-taxed cars are enormous.
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