Car tax error or robbery?

Raggs · 16 Oct 2015 at 14:39

so finally sorted a car out a ford focus taxed it online for 12 months (the dealer did it for me ) on the 15th of october, but when i check online it runs out on the 1st of october 2016 , so the goverment is charging me for 12 months but rarther slyly is giving me 11.5 months tax :mad:

was this gedions idea ??? i do recall somthing about drivers been chared twice in the news a while back ?? the old tax system was in place when i last had a car

ZXSpectrum · 16 Oct 2015 at 14:43

Its always backdated till the beginning of the month!

Redgie · 16 Oct 2015 at 14:44

You also lose out if you sell your car before the tax runs out, as the amount you're refunded is rounded down to the nearest month.

However, at least you now get something back when you sell the car, there is one less thing to look at when buying /selling a car (in terms of how much is left), and there are no more tax discs

cheesyboy · 16 Oct 2015 at 14:45

With the digital system for this now, there really is no need other than government money-grabbing that they have to issue for whole months.

Why can't we have an exact expiry date?

Raggs · 16 Oct 2015 at 14:53

cheesyboy said:
With the digital system for this now, there really is no need other than government money-grabbing that they have to issue for whole months.

Why can't we have an exact expiry date?

aye it's blatant theft if they can do it with mot's they could do the same with car tax no exscuse.

koooowweeee · 16 Oct 2015 at 18:11

Raggs said:
aye it's blatant theft if they can do it with mot's they could do the same with car tax no exscuse.

especially when theres no more tax disc

koolpc · 16 Oct 2015 at 18:16

koooowweeee said:
especially when theres no more tax disc

But still tax!

Lopéz · 16 Oct 2015 at 20:10

Raggs said:
was this gedions idea ??? i do recall somthing about drivers been chared twice in the news a while back ?? the old tax system was in place when i last had a car

It's been like that since the first time I bought car tax in 1997 at least....

TheMonkDontDo · 17 Oct 2015 at 07:35

road tax never begins half way through the month.

Dogbreath · 17 Oct 2015 at 08:42

Lopéz said:
It's been like that since the first time I bought car tax in 1997 at least....

Exactly, and you only ever got refunded whole months as well. Still, nothing like a whinge over a topic that has been discussed about a million times before.