Car TAX and selling cars

[getin]

So apparently after September You buy tax for your car online or on the phone, and when you come to sell it the government/dvla will send you a cheque for the remaining amount left, and if you sell your car in the first week of the month you loose that months worth of tax.

 

[Neil]

Heads they win, tails you lose.

 

[cce]

At the highest taxation class, a month's tax is about £42.

 

[getin]

So bear in mind any cars your looking at require taxing straight away.

 

[fagin]

And I think you only get the tax back if you ask for it, not automatically.

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

This has been around on a lot of car forums.

So, to counter all the knee-jerk reactions (not aimed at this thread per-se);

Who ever claimed the VED back when they sold a car, really? Plus, you always lost that month in the above scenario anyway. The difference being that you used to get a few months 'free' tax with a used car, not any more.

Just knock £100-150 off the price that you would have paid for a used car in the past, and it all balances out.


Simples.

 

[fagin]

But the car is not taxed the minute you buy it, technically, so you need to tax it on the spot. PITA.

 

[fagin]

Bit of a bummer for people without smartphones or computer literate. I still have clients who pay in cash notes. How weird is that?

 

[pigman]

But the car is not taxed the minute you buy it, technically, so you need to tax it on the spot. PITA.

and to do that I guess you have to make sure it's MOT'd and insured ??

 

[legrandefromage]

the system will know straight away if its MOT'd and insured


the same system that crashed today

*you can still walk into most post offices to tax a car. having bought two cars just recently, we taxed them at the local PO within minutes of putting the phone down to the insurers