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A crushing blow
Skibum346:
--- Quote from: "drmike" ---You don't get the reminder early enough to have the form to take to the PO - a lot of older people rely on the reminder.
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I'm sure I made a reference to personal responsibility earlier in this thread... this I think would fall firmly into this category.
It's not the responsibility of DVLA to remind people to tax their cars, neither is it a defence to say I didn't get the reminder in time.
Are you really suggesting that some households have no calander on which they can write a note to self? (Let alone Microsft Outlook, that once set will repeat ad infinitum and repeatedly remind you?)
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Bob696:
--- Quote ---it is illegal to drive on a road or other public place without insurance covering third party risks for that vehicle.
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So replace my comments about untaxed cars with uninsured cars. Whatever the police are still deciding on the punishment.
--- Quote ---It's not the responsibility of DVLA to remind people to tax their cars, neither is it a defence to say I didn't get the reminder in time.
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Regarding taxing your car. As Dr Mike says you CANNOT tax you car until you get the form. If it gets lost in the post you are screwed especialy if you have no off road parking. Plod could come along and crush your car through no fault of your own.
--- Quote ---You have proven you guilty by failing to supply the necessary documentation... surely?
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In law you are not required to give evidence against yourself. Or are we saying that that bit of the british justice system has now been scrapped as well?
--- Quote ---I dont think they would simply crush your car at 3 weeks as long as you had insurance and a licence...hope not anyway.
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Would or could. This is the root of the problem. They may not but could they if they wanted to and who decides?
Bulli:
Bob you CAN tax your car without a renewal...how on earth would you tax a car when you first buy it????? The dvla arent psychic.
Skibum346:
--- Quote from: "Bob696" ---Regarding taxing your car. As Dr Mike says you CANNOT tax you car until you get the form. If it gets lost in the post you are screwed especialy if you have no off road parking.
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Wrong.
You can renew tax with your V5.
As TERMINUS stated higher up THIS page... you can renew your tax earlier and you do not lose out as you can specify when you need it to start from. Post offices hold stocks of all relevant tax discs.
Skibum346:
--- Quote from: "Bob696" ---In law you are not required to give evidence against yourself.
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By providing evidence that your vehicle is taxed, insured and MOT'd, whether at court or at the police station... you are providing evidence in your defence.
Failing to provide evidence in your defence is not testifying against yourself. You have an absolute right to silence... but that silence can work against you as well as for you.
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