Any method to purchase Tax?

Tesla · 18 Jan 2006 at 09:02

Hi,

So I am now insured on the Mystical Beast of my (Almost) Free Rover!

All I need to do now is get some Tax to be able to drive it.

However, I have no insurance documents yet!

Surely there must be a way to obtain Tax, some loop hole in the system?

Nozzer · 18 Jan 2006 at 09:06

Tesla said:
Hi,

So I am now insured on the Mystical Beast of my (Almost) Free Rover!

All I need to do now is get some Tax to be able to drive it.

However, I have no insurance documents yet!

Surely there must be a way to obtain Tax, some loop hole in the system?

Get the insurance co. to fax you some documents. Or wait for them to arrive

.

Tesla · 18 Jan 2006 at 09:15

Nozzer said:
Get the insurance co. to fax you some documents. Or wait for them to arrive .

The woman said I could pay to get them sent express or wait. No FAX option

I was wondering that perhaps someone with DOC cover could get the tax? Or any way for me to get it?

Confused · 18 Jan 2006 at 09:26

You need an insurance certificate with the registration mark of the car.

Or, you need the policy number, and a new computerised MOT, and you may be able to do it online (however you may still have to wait for the tax disc to be sent before using the car, or you may be caught/fined for failing to display a valid tax disc)

happytechie · 18 Jan 2006 at 09:32

The other option is to convince a friendly Car trader to tax it for you using his company / group policy.

HT

Bill101 · 18 Jan 2006 at 09:37

Insurance companies always say you will get the original documents in the post iwithn 5-7 days.In reality it is more like 2 or 3. Spent the time going over the car and cleaning it

Del Lardo · 18 Jan 2006 at 09:53

ConfusedTA said:
(however you may still have to wait for the tax disc to be sent before using the car, or you may be caught/fined for failing to display a valid tax disc)

I'm pretty sure that so long as you have paid you don't need to display the disc immediately. If you do I'm going to be having a right old rant a I've been waiting for mine for 3 weeks now. Having said that I might go on a rant anyway, 3 weeks is taking the pee.

lordedmond · 18 Jan 2006 at 11:18

go on line to DVLA to tax your car they do an instant lookup to see if your insured

kitten_caboodle · 18 Jan 2006 at 11:48

lordedmond said:
go on line to DVLA to tax your car they do an instant lookup to see if your insured

Don't you have to have a computerised MOT to do that? I tried last year with my bog-standard handwritten MOT and was told no go.

Sirrel Squirrel · 18 Jan 2006 at 11:54

kitten_caboodle said:
Don't you have to have a computerised MOT to do that? I tried last year with my bog-standard handwritten MOT and was told no go.

yeah you need a new style MOT certificate

Try taxing it online though Tesla, might work

wonder_lander · 18 Jan 2006 at 12:31

Faxed copies aren't acceptable from what I recall.

When I bought my passat last week it had no tax. I insured it and drove it without a tax disc for 2 days. When the insurance docs arrived I taxed it. As the tax is back dated to the start of the month I wasn't depriving anyone of any revenue!

Tesla · 18 Jan 2006 at 13:07

Another question I have is...

I have my Mondeo tasc disc here, expires the end of June iirc.

How do I "cash it in"?

Confused · 18 Jan 2006 at 13:09

Go to post office, ask for relevent form, staple disc to form, send it in.

Beepcake · 18 Jan 2006 at 14:16

Del Lardo said:
I'm pretty sure that so long as you have paid you don't need to display the disc immediately. If you do I'm going to be having a right old rant a I've been waiting for mine for 3 weeks now. Having said that I might go on a rant anyway, 3 weeks is taking the pee.

Unless it's changed with the new computerised system, yes you do. The offence if you are 'done' by a normal Police person is 'failure to display a valid tax disk', not 'failure to have tax'. I was told the same thing by the garage I bought my car from, so I checked with the DVLA and the Police and they told me he was talking a load of nonsense.

And faxed copies of insurance documents won't do for taxing (or they're not meant to), I went to the DirectLine offices in Manchester to pick mine up the same day for that very reason.

Bill101 · 18 Jan 2006 at 14:44

Tesla said:
Another question I have is...

I have my Mondeo tasc disc here, expires the end of June iirc.

How do I "cash it in"?

send it off soon as you can only claim for full months,so you will miss out on all of Feb's tax if you send it off after 31st Jan.
The post office have simple forms to fill in and stick your old disc onto

Gentwee · 18 Jan 2006 at 15:08

The V14 is the one you need, just make sure the car is either SORN'd or declared scrapped or not yours any more. Then make sure they don't muck it up and come after you for having no tax. Like they did to me.

kaiowas · 18 Jan 2006 at 16:32

When I last insured the MR2 I had to print my own documents (would have cost extra to have them sent to me). I just ended up with a pdf file which I printed on normal paper with normal ink and when I came to tax the car the woman behind the counter hardly looked at it.

Now i'm not suggesting for one minute that you photochop an insurance certificate or anything......

tb2000 · 18 Jan 2006 at 19:04

ConfusedTA said:
Go to post office, ask for relevent form, staple disc to form, send it in.

I'm pretty sure they throw a tantrum if you staple it! (Needs to be glued on).
As mentioned, insurance companies don't normally fax cover notes, etc or send photocopies. The post office wouldn't accept them anyway (at least, my one doesn't anyway).

Randell Floyd · 18 Jan 2006 at 19:24

If you insurance has begun, I'm sure if you purchase the car tax online via the dvla site it will be fine.

I hat to product nothing as it's online and they have all the relevant information to know that the car I was taxing was insured and had a valid M.O.T.

Confused · 19 Jan 2006 at 08:37

tb2000 said:
I'm pretty sure they throw a tantrum if you staple it! (Needs to be glued on).
As mentioned, insurance companies don't normally fax cover notes, etc or send photocopies. The post office wouldn't accept them anyway (at least, my one doesn't anyway).

Is it glueing?

I knew it was one or the other

I guessed wrong!

It'll say on the form anyway!

Whoops, just checked the form and you're right, it isn't stapled