Would you report a car with no tax?

Werewolf said:
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).
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I was thinking the same, its like saying just because a car park to a shop is private land its ok to leave a SORN there , the owner would soon get it off the land.
 
Here's the deal.

Since I turned 17 I've always had 3 things:

Tax, Insurance, MOT.
In my earlier years this was damn expensive and not earning much money it hurt.
But the law is the law - so I always made sure I was legal.

Obviously as time goes on the amounts go up, however I also earn more money so realy it doesn't hurt quite so much.
However I always make sure I'm 100% leagl - wouldn't dream of having a vehicle without "all of the above".

So for that reason I wouldn't and don't think twice about reporting a vehicle with no tax.
I don't go looking for such vehicles - I don't walk streets looking for a car without tax.
However if I know of a vehicle local to me that has an out of date tax and is parked in a public place and/or used I wil report it.

Sod all this "None of your business" or "grass" rubbish.
You pay your taxes so why the hell should people be able to get away without paying.
 
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