Is cherished transfer effected by new paperless tax disc system?

The only thing that's changed is that changing the keeper of a car triggers a refund of the tax.

So if the "old motor" is going to be sold, then the sale will trigger a refund.

The "new motor" will be bought untaxed, and he'll have to tax or SORN it immediately.

the effect of which is to put another 27 million pounds a year into the system, which plus the 50 million they have saved by going paperless is really quite a nice little earner, I expect they even managed to put a few people out of a job at dvla too, bonuses all round I expect.

Not much more than the annual amount lost to people who don't pay their VED, and a tiny drop in the ocean compared to the £6 billion which VED raises annually - itself not even 1% of annual Gov't revenue.

If you think they've done this as a money-earner, you'll probably be interested in several other similarly daft conspiracy theories.

it is a money saver/earner for sure. 2.7 million 2nd vehicle sales per year, every time there is part of a month that has been paid for yet not used, often on the part of both buyer and seller.

Very likely, yes. And why on earth not, when every single arm of Gov't is trying to save as much money as possible? But my point remains. The actual amount of money saved/earned is trivial, in the grand scheme of things. The changes were done on the basis of them being revenue neutral, from what I remember reading some Parliamentary briefing doc at the time of the changes.

More than that, I'd have thought. But the vast majority (70%+, IIRC) are of untaxed vehicles.

My tax renewal form states that when a vehicle is sold, the outstanding tax is refunded (ok - to the month), and secondhand vehicles are now bought untaxed, and must be immediately taxed or SORN.

How this affects cherished transfer I don't know.

(I was furious when I discovered my Road Tax has gone up from zero to £20 this year).

Yep, since last October.

It doesn't. It's the change of keeper which triggers it.

My heart bleeds for you, you poor lamb.

Mine's gone from £30 to £225. Worth it though. ;-)

Tim

You've upsized? :-)

A wee bit. Kia Ceed diesel estate to Jag XF 3 litre diesel saloon.

I needed a useful car, an estate or hatchback, one without stupid low profile tyres and front wheel drive. Instead I bought what I wanted. ;-)

Tim

So did I, but with different criteria. Nice motor, the XF.

So how come you didn't end up with 550bhp of 5 litre supercharged petrol XFR-S...?

Well, yeah. That would have been nice but I'm working my way up. ;-)

Tim