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Escapee · 08-06-2016, 16:04

I found myself needing to get a little runabout at the end of April, I went and looked at a car advertised privately on a Saturday afternoon and said 'I'll have it'. This was the 30th April, the last day of the month, the seller had it parked off road on his driveway and was keen to do the deal on the spot so he could cancel the tax. I agreed to come back the following day and pick it up as it would enable me to change my car insurance and tax it. The insurance change was dealt with online and was completed in minutes and within a few more minutes I receive my new insurance certificate via email. The next challenge was to tax it with the 12 digit reference on the New Keepers supplement V5C/2. I knew the vehicle was still on the MID and the system wouldn't be intelligent enough to know that it wasn't on their system in my name yet, so I thought it would be a doddle.

I followed the online instructions, vehicle registration, don't have a reminder in my name etc, I have a V5C/2 and 12 digit reference.... all looking good.... enter the details, press the continue button..... A message telling me that it is already being processed.

I went to pick up the car and carried a copy of the insurance certificate and a screenshot of my attempt to tax it that day. When speaking to the seller, he said that he had failed to inform them that he was selling the vehicle because the website only allowed you to do that Monday - Friday between office hours, also Monday was a bank holiday so the only way he could avoid being charged for another months tax was to declare the vehicle off-road and SORN it.

This is probably the reason why I couldn't tax it, as it was waiting to be processed by a little man in the job creation centre located in Swansea.

I wasn't able to tax the vehicle until the afternoon of the 5th May, I had to use the vehicle from the 2nd May. I attempted about a dozen times each day but checking the tax status kept showing it as taxed up until the afternoon of the 5th when the little man finally got around to processing it.

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Escapee cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: This Planet Posts: 4,028	Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years I found myself needing to get a little runabout at the end of April, I went and looked at a car advertised privately on a Saturday afternoon and said 'I'll have it'. This was the 30th April, the last day of the month, the seller had it parked off road on his driveway and was keen to do the deal on the spot so he could cancel the tax. I agreed to come back the following day and pick it up as it would enable me to change my car insurance and tax it. The insurance change was dealt with online and was completed in minutes and within a few more minutes I receive my new insurance certificate via email. The next challenge was to tax it with the 12 digit reference on the New Keepers supplement V5C/2. I knew the vehicle was still on the MID and the system wouldn't be intelligent enough to know that it wasn't on their system in my name yet, so I thought it would be a doddle. I followed the online instructions, vehicle registration, don't have a reminder in my name etc, I have a V5C/2 and 12 digit reference.... all looking good.... enter the details, press the continue button..... A message telling me that it is already being processed. I went to pick up the car and carried a copy of the insurance certificate and a screenshot of my attempt to tax it that day. When speaking to the seller, he said that he had failed to inform them that he was selling the vehicle because the website only allowed you to do that Monday - Friday between office hours, also Monday was a bank holiday so the only way he could avoid being charged for another months tax was to declare the vehicle off-road and SORN it. This is probably the reason why I couldn't tax it, as it was waiting to be processed by a little man in the job creation centre located in Swansea. I wasn't able to tax the vehicle until the afternoon of the 5th May, I had to use the vehicle from the 2nd May. I attempted about a dozen times each day but checking the tax status kept showing it as taxed up until the afternoon of the 5th when the little man finally got around to processing it. Last edited by Escapee; 08-06-2016 at 16:06. Reason: fixed some of my spelling