Would you report a car with no tax?

Dave85 · 18 Jan 2009 at 16:03

yup I would, infact I did for a car in the street here, wardens came round and plasterd fines on it, they still didnt move it and a few weeks later it was removed

cheets64 · 18 Jan 2009 at 16:32

Yes, if its has expired tax then it could possibly have no insurance, a car were I use to work caught fire in the car park and it wasn't tax or insurance and the fire damaged a both cars next to it and they had to claim off their own insurance.

Just shop them or have a word with the owner.

Viper² · 18 Jan 2009 at 16:34

Yes I would and have done it before.

MrMoonX · 18 Jan 2009 at 17:00

if its a nightmare to park then yeah shop it, also worth noting is you are not supposed to askmid on cars that are not yours

benneh · 18 Jan 2009 at 17:02

I probably wouldn't, on account of it being hard enough to wake up in the morning without the idea that everyone's out to shop each other in.

Gribs · 18 Jan 2009 at 19:07

As it appears to be a private car park it's fine for it to be sorn'd there.

Lopéz · 18 Jan 2009 at 19:09

No I wouldn't.

OpenToSuggestions · 18 Jan 2009 at 19:10

Yes

I pay my road tax and so should he

philjohn · 18 Jan 2009 at 19:47

I seem to remember reading something on these forums about it being fine to sorn in a place like that, but them needing insurance in case (as another poster said) it bursts into flames, rolls forward or somesuch.

Is that true?

BigglesPiP · 18 Jan 2009 at 20:11

Lets all report it.

Overlag · 18 Jan 2009 at 20:14

mglover070588 said:
Yes

I pay my road tax and so should he

yup, exactly.

goldilocks · 18 Jan 2009 at 20:16

Theres an untaxed car round our area (v. dirty, untaxed for a while) that someone has written 'untaxed' in large letters on the bonnet in the dirt!
It hasn't been picked up yet!

L0rdMike · 18 Jan 2009 at 20:41

Gribs said:
As it appears to be a private car park it's fine for it to be sorn'd there.

Its not private at all.

As anyone from the public can park I thought tax was needed. If it isnt then my car will be coming back to sit in a bay with no tax.

mattpc · 18 Jan 2009 at 20:47

If it's ******* you off then report it. If it's causing no harm then don't. Simple really.

mattpc · 18 Jan 2009 at 20:48

L0rdMike said:
Its not private at all.

As anyone from the public can park I thought tax was needed. If it isnt then my car will be coming back to sit in a bay with no tax.

mate of mine has been done for no tax while parked in a council multi storey before.

Gribs · 18 Jan 2009 at 20:54

L0rdMike said:
Its not private at all.

As anyone from the public can park I thought tax was needed. If it isnt then my car will be coming back to sit in a bay with no tax.

If it's privately owned land then it's fine.

William · 18 Jan 2009 at 21:03

I definately wouldn't, nor would I go around checking.

Hedge · 18 Jan 2009 at 21:09

Unless I had some kind of problem with the owner. Id just keep myself to myself.

Hatter The Mad · 18 Jan 2009 at 21:15

I would report it, because I hate people trying to ruin the socialist aspects of our country (people who don't pay the tax they should as well as the people to take benefits they do not deserve).

Werewolf · 18 Jan 2009 at 22:48

Gribs said:
If it's privately owned land then it's fine.

IIRC for the purposes of tax and insurance, and licensing, if the public have relatively unrestricted access to it, it's "public".
A car park is normally generally freely accessible to the public from the roads, and as such would probably be counted as public.
A driveway to a house is private etc.

If it was behind a gate or some such that separated it from being generally accesable it would be private, if it isn't it's probably classed as public.

IIRC there was a case not long ago where a private estate was opened up for the day for an event, and one of the owners sons was done for driving without licence/insurance on his fathers land - normally it wouldn't have been a problem as normally the land was "private" but because the public had free access to it at that time it was classed as "public" in the eyes of the law.

So at a guess I would say it would be classed as being "on the road" for the purposes of the law, and as such would probably report it as being abandoned (I don't know why, but i've got a minor aversion to people leaving untaxed cars in public places, and a slightly larger aversion to them driving them on the roads).