Taxing you car is soo easy...
 

... isnt it? No it isnt. I went down to the main post office today with green slip from V5, MOT and insurance. Everything you need then i thought to get your 6 months tax. WRONG! "Oh but sir because you dont have your reminder slip it will have to start from the beginning of feb". Well that only gives me 5 months tax doesnt it? It says that the green slip is valid so why do i only get 5 months instead of 6? I refuse to pay full price when i am not getting the full 6 months!

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well you should of had the reminder with you then shouldnt you ;)

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When you only bought the car a week ago its not that easy as the DVLA hasnt sent it out yet. And when i got the reminder from the last owner and phoned up to see if this would be fine i was told that yes it is so long as she has insurance on the car! She bloody sold it so why the hell would she be insured on the damn thing!!!?

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You can do it by Internet these days if all your details are correct.

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You need a credit or debit card and seeing as i go a lil mental with money when i have one i dont bother with them.

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Only 6 months? Don't get mugged and buy a full 12 months. The savings are worth it!

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thats an understatement tad ;)

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You save about 20-30 quid i think. Im not bothered about that i can afford to not bother

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Plus I'm lazy and can't be bothered going down twice!:D

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That doesn't make sense Tadah, did she explain?

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Has the car got any tax on it now? if not they will not do it till near the end of the month or you will have to pay from the beginning of the month, think they allow 3 days so you should be Ok now, but not to drive it though :)

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yeah the cars taxed till the end of the month ksh

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Ok, if you go back tomorrow you should be able to do it for 6 month, they wont give you a disk for the following month when only part way through a month, that way you could put the disk in and get more than 6 month out of it - illegally of coarse, I know in your case the car is already taxed so you wouldn't do it but the post office staff don't know that

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its affording it all at once that he's bothered about

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Its only about 20 quid id save doing it for 12 months willow my lil flower but im not bothered about the money saving its the principle. (spelling?)

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I'd be more interested in the £20. :D

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Big SOBS !!!!

Ive no car to tax anymore :(

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No ... and i was only 3rd party, fire and theft !
Should have told the police the rabbits jumped me, beat me up, vandalised a tree and a lamp-post and did a runner with the car ! :D

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In ref to KSH, the PO do know that cars are already taxed. When we bought one of Julies teh seller had sent the tax disk back and when I went to tax it it must not have been processed as the lady on the counter said "Its already taxed".

I have never understood why they can't offer a monthly purchase scheme where you pay direct debit each month and when the reminder comes out it says its already paid and you just need to show your docs to get the disk. I think there are a lot of people who can afford ~£10-15/month but finding £200 in one lump sum is hard.

Even better IMHO is stick it on fuel, gas guzzling/high mileage drivers pay more, no-one can avoid it, no need to pay for all teh admin involved in collection/chasing non payers etc. Problem is no Gov will ever have the balls to do it.

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I can afford not to be bothered about it though. Dont think they do saving stamps as ive never heard about it. a direct debit for some would be much better. id do it that way.