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RANT! How to tax your vehicle

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Bob696:

--- Quote ---It is an offence to use a vehicle on a public road without displaying a valid tax disc.
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That is a seperate offence to not haveing the car taxed though. "Failure to display" carries a small fine. I have NEVER displayed a tax disk on my bike (too easy to steal) but always carried them in my wallet. Every time I got stopped I just explained to plod why I did that and they said it was fair enough as the rest of the bike was OK. I used to get stopped at least once a month in the 'old days'.

Karen696:
Just for anyone out there who believes in the 14 days grace.

There has never been a legal reason why they should give you 14 days grace - I even have letters from the DVLA stating that - it was always 'discretionary'  so if you got a bureacratic ar*****e you could be done, thing is the magistrates used to look on it as a minor offence and rarely fined the driver very much and that is the ONLY reason for the 'grace' period.

Incidentally - the DVLA never gave you the 14 days grace if you had just bought a car.  Yep, if you owned the car and didn't tax it they would let you off, but it you bought a car and it wasn't taxed they would do you.

I know this because I bought a car - privately, had to pick it up after the chap finished work and after the post office had shut.

Drove it home (well you have no choice about that really do you?)  parked it on the road (because I didn't have off-road parking at the time)

Plod came round at 6 am the next morning and BANG I had a ticket.

I 'got away' with paying the back tax by paying for the whole month, which I would have had to do any way (including 12 days when I hadn't owned the vehicle) but only after lengthy and prolonged arguments on the phone and by letter with the local DVLA office.

ben_haynes:

--- Quote from: "Bob696" ---
--- Quote ---It is an offence to use a vehicle on a public road without displaying a valid tax disc.
--- End quote ---


That is a seperate offence to not haveing the car taxed though. "Failure to display" carries a small fine. I have NEVER displayed a tax disk on my bike (too easy to steal) but always carried them in my wallet. Every time I got stopped I just explained to plod why I did that and they said it was fair enough as the rest of the bike was OK. I used to get stopped at least once a month in the 'old days'.
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you dont need to tax a push bike :lol:  :lol:

Wolfie:

--- Quote from: "Wolfie" ---
TO BE CONTINUED.......... (as no doubt there will be further incompetence at the VRO)
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Actually turned out to be quite painless  :o

Well, it was after finding the place, the address on the sheet given to me by the post office was only two years out of date  :roll:

The queue wasn't too bad, only about 1/2 hour, and the swap took minutes.

Marginally happier now, and able to get on with more important things like preparing the car for the Hillrally.

Regards

Wolfie

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