Road tax and used cars-new rules

[DarrenSV650S]

So does it have to be taxed by the buyer? Or can the dealer still offer to tax it for you?

[dizzyblonde]

We upgraded our older car in June for the newer model with cruise control. We payed the dealer to tax it, so we could drive it away, and we took the old disk from the old car, and sent it to the dvla for a refund.

The new car had a mobility exempt tax disc on it, still valid for three months and that was sent back by the dealer.

[Paul the 6th]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vehicle-tax-changes

it looks like the tax is relative to you as an owner and is non-transferable, it'll be a case of "have you paid your vehicle excise duty" rather than "has the vehicle excise duty been paid on this vehicle?", similar to the relationship which vehicle insurance has with the owner and the vehicle..

So yeah, it looks like the existing owner will have paid their tax to the end of the month, then any new owners will also have to pay their own tax when purchasing. Computer records already show whether or not your car is taxed/insured or declared off-road, so no longer having a tax disc to display isn't the real change..

[Kenzie]

Be aware of people doing deals on tax disc holders!

[DarrenSV650S]

So what happens if you lend someone your car?

[shiftin_gear98]

What he said, and what about hire cars?

[Paul the 6th]

if you borrow someones car, or get a hire car, then obviously the answer is that the government are still nob ends.

The info on the .gov page suggests that road tax will become an issue when the vehicle is sold or bought, so borrowing someones car or driving a hire car, the vehicle will show as taxed as long as the registerred keeper has in fact taxed it.

Bought and sold... or when the registered keeper changes?

[Bibio]

seems i was wrong. it's not transferable.

another little cunning side to this (from what i can read) is that if your MOT runs out you will automatically get a refund so your vehicle will not be taxed. lets put it another way, if like me your TAX runs out a month after your MOT and your MOT is at the start of a month and you forget to book the vehicle in for an MOT and the MOT runs out you will loose a full months TAX. whats not been made clear is if the DVLA will automatically SORN the vehicle or if that will still be the responsibility of the owner of the vehicle.

are the Gov taking the fekin pizz, https://www.youtube.com/user/DVLAgov is supposed to 'explain' about the new methods. instead we get a Geordie who i cant understand a word he is saying and from the odd word here and there i get the feeling he wants to make love to the big tax disc.

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by Spank86

Bought and sold... or when the registered keeper changes?

another busy day for you is it spank?