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31 Dec 01 - 01:41 AM (#618886) Subject: My car needs taxing!! From: Red Eye Bought a car a couple of months ago and just noticed the tax runs out Dec 01. How can I tax it on New Years Day when the PO is closed. Can I tax it prior, ie today? |
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31 Dec 01 - 02:02 AM (#618896) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Blackcatter Is this anything like Boxing Day? Car Taxing Day? Are their songs and costumes involved? |
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31 Dec 01 - 02:07 AM (#618901) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: katlaughing LOL, Blackcatter! Not sure what you mean Red Eye, but the po's in the States are open, tomorrow, if that's any help. |
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31 Dec 01 - 03:58 AM (#618923) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: GUEST,Paul You can tax it up to 14 days prior to the renewal date. If you keep the car off the road, and don't use it you also have up to 14 days to fill in a SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification) Certificate before you get into trouble. Paul |
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31 Dec 01 - 05:17 AM (#618931) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Dave the Gnome They also will not worry too much about you taxing it a few days retrospectively. There used to be a semi-official 14 day grace period. Not sure if that still applies but I am pretty certain that if you were to tax it in the first week of January you would not get in trouble. (I hope!) Cheers DtG |
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31 Dec 01 - 08:00 AM (#618952) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: GUEST,Paul I had to ring DVLA up about this a couple of months ago, and the 14 days of 'grace' doesn't apply any more. (Only for SORN) Mind you, would be a pretty mean policeman who pulled you up on New Year's Day... Paul |
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31 Dec 01 - 09:12 AM (#618967) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Mr Red Porlock Hill is pretty taxing. 1 in 4 in old money. |
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31 Dec 01 - 09:18 AM (#618971) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Red Eye Blackcatter, yes it's a hilarious day when the government relieve you of £150 so that you can drive your car on their roads. They also charge a ludricrous ammount at the pumps to satisfy the goverments thirst for tax. |
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31 Dec 01 - 10:56 AM (#619002) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Gypsy Kat, are you sure about that? Our PO is shut tight for New Years day here, on West Coast. |
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31 Dec 01 - 11:19 AM (#619010) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: katlaughing Yes, on New Year's day, here, too, Gypsy, but not New Year's EVE Day, today, at least that I know of. |
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31 Dec 01 - 04:32 PM (#619152) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Jock Morris If you're going to be sober enough to even consider driving on the 1st of Jan then you're just not celebrating New Year correctly:-) Scott |
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31 Dec 01 - 05:01 PM (#619172) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Ned Ludd Mine runs out at the same time, bought one two days ago,put it on tonight in case I'm too fragile in the morn. So.... Both problems sorted! |
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31 Dec 01 - 09:21 PM (#619278) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Cobble Well I forgot my MOT ran out 29th December, can't get it done until Wednsday!!! Thats me off the road until then, or risk a find of £25!! Mrs C |
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31 Dec 01 - 09:35 PM (#619282) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: 53 you can help pay for my car too, if you would like. BOB |
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01 Jan 02 - 12:05 AM (#619307) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: M.Ted Where you have tax, we have tags, and in some states, inspection stickers, as well--In Pennsylvania, you had to have your inspection sticker before you could get new tags, and if the tags expired, you couldn't get the inspection done until the tags were current--Catch 22 is real-- |
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01 Jan 02 - 12:46 AM (#619316) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: GUEST Are the tags anything like, the tags put on game animals, in the winter, in Wyoming?
Are you fare game, if you have one? Are you fairlt game if you don't have one?
If you "backside" a moose, on the backroads of Maine, does your kaboska belong in the caboose, or may you run loose?
Why did you make THIS posting? |
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01 Jan 02 - 03:17 PM (#619519) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Mr Red a tax from a flamer! |
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02 Jan 02 - 07:47 AM (#619818) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: JudeL The scary bit is not the possibility of a £25 fine for expired MOT but that if you don't have a valid MOT it invalidates your insurance so effectively you are driving without insurance. For those not in the UK, here it's illegal to drive without insurance (as in - they can take your licence away from you illegal) and having a car without a valid tax disc can get you a hefty fine. To get a tax disc you have to have an insurance certificate (valid for that car) and an MOT certificate (unless it's less than 3 years old) and a form saying that it's your car. Take all that plus £150 to a main post office and god help you if someone has mis-written/ mis-typed the registration number on any of the documents (as my insurance agent once did). Jude who's car is off the road at the moment having failed it's MOT by having the clutch give up under the strain of the rolling road test! |
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02 Jan 02 - 11:06 AM (#619880) Subject: RE: My car needs taxing!! From: Gypsy I KNEW that i read faster than i thought. Thanks, Kat. |