Forgot to pay car tax and caught how much is the fine?

[brightspark]

the vans normaly sit there and it says dvla - on a digital display normaly tjhey want the current payment and backdate to the previous month

 

[ukracer]

Too late now, but I managed to get a fine quashed by telling them I had posted the form with a cheque to local licensing office so it must have got lost in the post

Note: this tactic will probably only work once

I doubt it will work now as they closed them all.

 

[ukracer]

since tax runs in whole months, it'll have started from the beginning of the month or the date you bought the van, whichever is earliest.

Fingers crossed there's no further action against you, although 'technically' you broke the law as soon as you drove the van away from the Seller/garage as RFL is not transferable at point of sale.

Yeah this is the latest con from DVLA. The thing in the OPS favour is the ANPR might show it as taxed.....you can go online and check that....whilst slim is correct technically it's not taxed ,to the ANPR is might be....

 

[GW8IZR]

if its as you say just a week or so they may not have received or processed the change of ownership anyway, you may get a letter through the post, if so ring them up and tell them you forgot but taxed as soon as you realised, they will check their records and see the vehicle is taxed now and they will almost certainly just say don't do it again..

 

[ukracer]

How long after buying van until you realised you'd forgotten to tax ? If just a couple of weeks and you've now backdated to the purchase date then I doubt it's worth DVLA pursuing further.

Depends with jobsworth you get there....They took my son to court despite me having the car in my unit. In bits and I had traders policy.

3 times we attended court. And in the end it cost him £10. It's this pathetic ruling about a car has to be insured unless it's sorned....in our case I had sold it while he was in Dubai so it was impossible for him to drive it...I even had photos of it being sold with the meta data showing date and time.

They also kept saying it's his car...and I kept saying it's not. They kept saying it's registered in his name. I replied with the V5 is NOT proof of ownership.

And they even had it written in large letters on the V5 but still thought they were right.

 

[Migmac]

I thought it was £80 fine, plus unpaid tax. If you paid quickly, less than a month the fine was reduced to £40

 

[roofman]

I have all my cars and trucks on direct debit each month...i hate direct debits with a passion but theres then zero chance of driving without tax as its automaticly carries on to the next year

 

[Migmac]

I have all my cars and trucks on direct debit each month...i hate direct debits with a passion but theres then zero chance of driving without tax as its automaticly carries on to the next year

Same here

 

[rtbcomp]

Does it cost more to pay by monthly DD?

 

[Migmac]

Does it cost more to pay by monthly DD?

Something like 5% more, it's a piece of mind thing for me

 

[roofman]

Something like 5% more, it's a piece of mind thing for me

+1

 

[the snooper]

Does it cost more to pay by monthly DD?

there is no charge if you pay yearly ie in full in one go

 

[GW8IZR]

The guys that do a bit of under the radar buying and selling at auction can get caught out but I've never heard of one getting fined if they tax it or sorn it there and then. If you forget to SORN something they dont seem to take any excuses.

Last occasion was when the camera failed to pick up the trade plates but they accepted that after a quick phone call. YMMV.

 

[Nick67GT]

He should probably check his credit score/rating given that a debt collection agency was involved, about 20 years a go I applied for a loan, got turned down. Nobody could tell me why, sent off for my credit score and found I had a county court judgement that I knew nothing about. Turns out it was my insurance company who hadn't paid and it was logged against me as policy holder. I got it removed after a couple of calls/letters.

@armalites - Thanks for the heads up on that - I'll get him to check his credit score over a few months to see if anything appears.