what would you do about road tax?

[Torn]

hey guys

well a bit stuck at what to do at the moment, im due to pick up me falco tommorrow, phoned and sorted the insurance with exprexx on tuesday its due to change over at 10am saturday, in there wisdom they have decided not to send out a cover note!!! have spoken to them and they are sending it out today recorded delivery to hopefully be with me tommorrow!!

question is...if it doesnt arrive do i pick the new bike up and ride it home (un taxed) and get tax on monday when the note should definetley be here or do i pospone picking the bike up until the cover note arrives and can tax immediatly?

what would you do?

thanks dave

[thor]

I would ride it. But then, I've been fined for that privilege. :cry:

[Torn]

I would ride it. But then, I've been fined for that privilege. :cry:

so what happened?

[lynw]

recorded delivery is pretty spot on tbh.

Wont the tax be backdated to start beginning of April anyway?? Thought it only ran til end of months so began at beginning of months. :?

[Torn]

yes it will be back dated, its more the fact that i could be riding without any tax

[lynw]

yes it will be back dated, its more the fact that i could be riding without any tax

Technically, you are taxed because when you get it, its backdated so covers you riding it home. Although at the time youre not. One madness of the system.

:roll:

I think any police officer stopping you would give you a producer to produce all documents within 7 days tbh. And any fine would be covered by the disk when you received it.

[Spiderman]

yes it will be back dated, its more the fact that i could be riding without any tax

But if the tax takes into account the time you rode then its ok isnt it?
I'd do it tbh, i mean when was the last time you saw a police roadblock round your way stopping cars or bikes to check for tax.
Just dont park it outside of your local cop shop :lol:

Dont let silly little things that are out of your control stop you being on your bike. I know i dont.
And having tax on your bike is not gonna make you any better a rider so its just a thing you toatlitarian govt want from you that gives you naff all back.

[will]

can you do it online once you have the cover note? that way you could tax it before you pick up?

failing that, i'd chance it - would be very unucky to get nicked.

however, does having no tax invalidate your insurance if the worst happens to your new P&J before you get a chance to tax it?

[Ceri JC]

I'd ride it. An awful lot of people ride without tax discs (without the discs being displayed on the bike I mean; not that they've not paid it) all the time with no problems.

If you do get asked to produce you should have plenty of time before the 7 days when you will actually have the disc.

[diamond]

I rode for a week with no tax disc displayed when i picked up my bike, the dealer just put a piece of paper in the holder with their business stamp on. As soon as it arrived in the post i went to the dealers to collect it.

[lynw]

I'd ride it. An awful lot of people ride without tax discs (without the discs being displayed on the bike I mean; not that they've not paid it) all the time with no problems.

Hence them devising ANPR. :D

[Swiss]

Dude,

Will the dealer not stick tax on it for you if you pay for it? Give um a call and ask, what the worst they can say . . . . . .no, in which case your no worse off. They should have the facility to do it other wise how could they sell bike with on otr price tags.
It' s worth a shot. TBH I don't think it'll be problem, but if it gives you peace of mind then you'll be able to enjoy the bike more.

[viner]

I always thought that any reliable reputable dealer wouldn't by law let you ride away without displaying a current tax disc!!!!

[Torn]

have spoken to the bike shop and they said no as its a used bike and they would have to register it which would put another owner on the documents which they wont do!! have just managed to speak to my mum who works in a post office and she said just go and get it and get tax tommorrow if the cover note turns up if not get it on monday!!

[thor]

I would ride it. But then, I've been fined for that privilege. :cry:

so what happened?

I was in arrears (not cool I know) and got reported. I was fined!

fine: £36
amount of tax outstanding: £2.50
forgetting to pay your road tax? Stupid

[Biker Biggles]

Just ride it and get the tax when you can.Storm in a teacup methinks.Try some of my chillpills :lol:

[Ceri JC]

Try some of my chillpills :lol:

Is it safe to ride after taking this particular sort of medication? :)

[Biker Biggles]

Bikes are always dangerous so a few pills and no road tax can't make things any worse. :D

[kjames]

i got fined for no tax when i got my bike.. same situation, but it was about two weeks before docs came through.. and then the post office wouldnt let me back date the tax to the beginning of the month.

i think i bought it on the 14th nov, tried to tax it 27th nov.. and they'd only tax it from dec. if i recall correctly it was £80 fine..

k

[Blue_SV650S]

The long and short of it is that it would be illegal to ride the bike without the tax. It matters not if you intend to buy it essentially backdated (as it runs form start of the month) at the time you ride the bike you have no TAX.

Also note that if you have a bump, that you will technically be uninsured too!!!

Likelyhood of getting caught in a couple of days??!?!?!? If you are me, and SODs law always applies, 100% :D for everyone else, pretty low.

Its down to you my man, but be under no illusion that it is ‘OK’ in the eyes of the law.

[Ceri JC]

Incidentally, and I suppose this is contrary to the advice I previously offered in this thread;

A year or so back I was a similar position with the road tax on my car. I didn't get my reminder in the post until fairly close to the day it expired, then it was in the garage for a few days being MOT'd due to mechanical faults, etc. In short; I almost didn't have a tax disc for a day or two. I was almost tempted to say, "Sod it, I won't get pulled in the week or two without it", but made a big effort/rush to sort everything out and got the new disc in the nick of time. Next day, a kid runs out in front of my car (I was doing 20 in a 30) and goes over the bonnet. Now, fortunately there were witnesses saying I hadn't been going too fast and the police were sympathetic to me, rather than adopting the "you're the driver and therefore automatically guilty" approach so often seen in pedestrian/car collisions and consequently recommended the CPS should not prosecute me for dangerous driving.

Now, it may be that I appeared concerned for the kid, rationalised my actions leading up to the collision and lack of skid marks on the road that caused them to behave this way. However, it's always at the back of my mind, that had they seen an out of date/non-existant tax disk when checking the car (they looked at the disk), things could have been very different...

[Torn]

all worry for nothing cover note arrived by recorded delivery this morning going to pick the bike up in 10 mins :lol: :lol: :lol:

[JakeRS]

I'd do it tbh, i mean when was the last time you saw a police roadblock round your way stopping cars or bikes to check for tax.


Quite recently, in Ashford...