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Originally Posted by Gary L
If you sell the car half way through a month. by surrendering the tax. you'll only get full months refunded. so instead 0f 3.5 that it is you'll only get 3.
the catch is that the person who bought that car half way through a month will have to pay a full 6 or 12 months.
so there's a 1/2 month lost. but a 1/2 month gained.
multiply that by a few million of the cars being sold and bought everyday. and you have about 50 million pound a year scammed.
when they do it. it's legal
when you do it. it's fraud.
stuff them. it's everyman for themselves. scam away  |
And how does that differ from now?
What I fail to see is why people are ignoring the positives and concentrating on negatives that really don't exist.
It will now be easier to price a vehicle at the lower end because the cost of remaining tax is not considered. Also this means that those without insurance who purchased a car with tax are now not able to do so.
The 10% additional charge for purchasing 6 months tax will be replaced by a 5% charge and the option to pay monthly. This is surely a great help for lower income households.
In addition they have also removed the ridiculous annual SORN renewal for vehicles that have already declared SORN. I could never understand the requirement, if it's off road, it's off road until the situation changes. Except of course Labour were raking in fines for people like myself who didn't receive a reminder in the post and forgot to SORN the motorbike in boxes spread between my attic and garage. (The fine was more than a years tax)
The other issue was that not only did Labour stop individuals scrapping a car by sending the V5 back as scrapped, they expected the owner in these circumstances to lie and declare it SORN each year for ever even though it has been cut up and weighed in. Labour were of course too thick to realise that as time goes on and the vehicle became more of a classic it would encourage vehicle identity fraud as the V5 for the SORN vehicle would have value.
Not that I know anyone who made money from this Labour stupidity
