Tax refund on a rejected car
Discussion
This is a hypothetical at the moment, but could end up becoming real for me in the next couple of days.
What is going to happen under the new tax system where someone buys a used car then rejects it. Now they must tax it themselves using the new keeper supplement before they can drive it on the road, even if it's still showing as taxed by the previous owner, so if anyone follows the correct procedure and pays for a full 12 or 6 months, then within days or hours wants to reject the car, and the dealer accepts it back.
Tax refunds are now automatic, so the previous keeper gets any left over tax when it is sold or sorned. From what i understand there is now no mechanism to return tax to anyone other than the RK. And the tax in the name of the person who rejected cannot be handed on with the car.
Now i suspect most sensible dealers will hold on to the log book for a week or 2, incase the car is returned, and as far as the dvla would know, there was never a change of keeper, so in this situation, how does someone get their tax back?
What is going to happen under the new tax system where someone buys a used car then rejects it. Now they must tax it themselves using the new keeper supplement before they can drive it on the road, even if it's still showing as taxed by the previous owner, so if anyone follows the correct procedure and pays for a full 12 or 6 months, then within days or hours wants to reject the car, and the dealer accepts it back.
Tax refunds are now automatic, so the previous keeper gets any left over tax when it is sold or sorned. From what i understand there is now no mechanism to return tax to anyone other than the RK. And the tax in the name of the person who rejected cannot be handed on with the car.
Now i suspect most sensible dealers will hold on to the log book for a week or 2, incase the car is returned, and as far as the dvla would know, there was never a change of keeper, so in this situation, how does someone get their tax back?
SV8Predator said:
What does it matter if there's no tax disc to return? There's still the mechanism to get your refund, per month, as explained above.
No there isn't, and if there where is it explained above?there is a mechanism to get it refunded to the registered keeper on the dvla system
there is no mechanism i can see for getting it refunded to someone with a temporary green slip as it all seems automated
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