I re-taxed a car for 1st of May, and like Adrian had said just the old expiry showed on the DVLC site. After a few days it changed and shows the whole year paid plus the last days of this month. So the system can show more than the current tax expiry date. I guess it just takes a while to catch up. Being short of cash I took the 12 monthly DD option, and they have not yet taken the first payment, so it is not related to actual payment being received.
Two working days before end of month, by any chance?
Don't forget you're not buying 12 x 1 month tax - you're buying 1 x 12 month tax, and paying for it on credit. So your tax purchase has gone through - but you now have a credit agreement to pay for it.
Certainly it shows today, but I have not checked it each day since paying, so not sure when it changed over. Do you think there is an independent service for the credit agreement? I am surprised that the fee is so low if there is an extra layer to the
12 month option.
Two working days is when you can buy a "new" (non-renewal) disc from the next month, so makes sense that that'd be when the changeover happens.
No, it'll be internal - same logic as TV licence or council tax.
I would guess "yes". A few years ago some toe-rag put in a change of ownership for a van which had been involved in an accident, giving a false name, and my address.
The rest is complicated, I delivered the registration document and a letter of explanation to a police station, and thought they would sort it, and chase up the villun. No chance!
The DVLA chased me up for the tax on the unknown van, despite phoning to explain, and the matter was soon put in the hands of a debt collection service/bailiff. I had to send them a fax, copying my letter and a photocopy of the registration form before they cancelled the debt collection procedure.
I got the following reply from DVLA
"Dear Mr
Thank you for your email received on 19/4/15. Your email reference number is 2978824.
It may be helpful if I explain that the receipt you were given at the Post Office is indeed confirmation that your vehicle is taxed. Upon checking our records I can confirm that you vehicle is taxed until 30/04/16.
Regards E Johnson DVLA Contact Centre"
However, the Post Office receipt didn't work for this driver:
"One driver had his car clamped after he opted to buy his wife?s Motability scheme vehicle following her death last August. He went to his local post office, completed the forms and paid for a year?s tax. He even got a receipt confirming this payment, but the DVLA then cancelled the payment following an admin error, resulting in his vehicle being clamping."
Sounds like a bollocks-up over changing it from disabled tax to normal, rather than a straight purchase of tax.
But notice the carefully crafted statement:
"It may be helpful if I explain that the receipt you were given at the Post Office is indeed confirmation that your vehicle is taxed. Upon checking our records I can confirm that you vehicle is taxed until 30/04/16."
I.e. the confirmation applies in my case because he checked his records that my vehicle was Taxed. If the check had come up negative, then that could still override the Post Office receipt. The device he used was to address the specific rather than the general case. Don't be hoodwinked by skilled bureaucrats.
You forget one thing.
Yours was a simple purchase of another year's tax on the exact same basis as before.
That other case was an ex-motobility vehicle, so disabled-class free tax, presumably being changed to normal tax. Something clearly went awry in that, so the issue wasn't the purchase of tax, but whether that tax was even needed or on what basis.
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