Paperless car tax system. Has anyone challenged this (might be long)

Nick · 2015-04-15T18:13:47+00:00

I believe this system to be possibly unlawful. Not the lack of a paper disc but the fact that road tax is not transferable on change of keeper. On change of keeper is there any way that DVLA or does not receive double road tax for the current month? I think not and also think that this should be challenged in law. I have recently, and unwittingly, possibly fallen foul of this. 28th of last month my wife's car insurance was due for renewal. Broker advised that it would be better to transfer the keepership from my trading name to my actual name. IE J R Smith changed to John Richard Smith. This done by filling in S.6 of V5 and sending off to DVLA. I did not want to transfer keepership to a new keeper, just change the name on the V5. Today I've received (1) a refund from dvla for tax from 1st March 2015, (2) a new V5 showing that I became the new keeper on 28th March and (3) a note saying '......this means that the vehicle has not been taxed since this date..........DVLA's enforcement section may be in contact with you regarding this gap in tax.'. Also today I have taxed the car from 1st April. No possible option to tax from 1st March. TBH I had forgotten about the new car tax regime. I imagine that I am now going to receive a whopping penalty for the car being untaxed for one month. The car was taxed for March. DVLA refunded this...... Blast.....I've answered my own Q. Ish. DVLA refunded and I should have retaxed from 1st March but I dated the form and sent it away on Saturday 28th March. Had I attempted to do so during the following three days the car would show as being taxed and I would not be able to re-tax it. Following that I would not have been able to re-tax to the beginning of the previous month anyway. I apologise for being long winded. I'm a pensioner and was only trying to do what was right. Finally gets to the points: Have I done summat wrong? Has this new (Oct 14) tax regime ever been challenged or tested in a UK court? If so, any links...

Apr 15, 2015 46 Replies

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johannes 11 years ago

No, it's a fight back against: "Trust us - we don't trust you..."

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SteveH 11 years ago

It's Johannes - when isn't he?

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johannes 11 years ago

It's not that simple SteveH, as the stoies show (link posted earlier by Mrcheerful).

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Adrian 11 years ago

I notice you forgot to answer this question...

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johannes 11 years ago

I wasn't aware at the time that there wa an online option, ther letter from DVLA said I should go to PO with V5, MOT and Insurance. No online option was mentioned.

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Adrian 11 years ago

The ability to tax a car online hasn't changed since it was introduced, oooh, probably nearly a decade ago.

Given that you haven't needed to take insurance to the PO for over a year now - so it hasn't been requested on the renewal notice - and that EVERY SINGLE V11 tax renewal has had the online details on it since they were introduced then, quite frankly, I don't believe you actually read it. You probably read what you THOUGHT it said.

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Mrcheerful 11 years ago

online details are next to the registration number on the reminder. there is no mention of taking an insurance certificate to the PO, it does say take an original MOT (which was why I queried you printing your own)

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