Car was garaged and insured - No Tax though....wtf..
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So i decided to bring my convertible out of storage. Go online to buy tax, pay and then am told because there was a gap in taxing the vehicle i may be investigated to determine why. Car has been in my internal garage and had full insurance in that time also..
Err...wtf... f
king thieving Britian.... Nothing changes...
Err...wtf... f
king thieving Britian.... Nothing changes...virgil said:
Blimey, do you not get TAX reminders in the post?? DOn;t see how that can have escaped you.
Though I do find it gauling that I have to tell the government every year that Im not using a car I own that's kept on my private property!
If youre not driving it except on your private property, and planning on never driving it on the road again then declare off the road permanently?Though I do find it gauling that I have to tell the government every year that Im not using a car I own that's kept on my private property!
virgil said:
VX Foxy said:
Never heard of SORN?
Blimey, do you not get TAX reminders in the post?? DOn;t see how that can have escaped you.Though I do find it gauling that I have to tell the government every year that Im not using a car I own that's kept on my private property!
Tyson1980 said:
No i did not SORN. I thought feck it as i had paid out £900 insuring the pile of crap..
What now? Farkin load of bks is what it is...
I don't understand what paying £900 to insure has got to do with taxing or having the car SORN'd. What now? Farkin load of b
ks is what it is...The off the road notice has been in force for some years now and it stops people trying to evade road tax. Instead of the usual 'it never gets driven your honour' excuse it's replaced with a SORN thus meaning if anyone has a car that isn't sorned they must be using it on the road without taxing it.
virgil said:
Though I do find it gauling that I have to tell the government every year that Im not using a car I own that's kept on my private property!
Because they're not that good! How would they know that Virgil isn't going to be one of these divs that try to get away without paying his road tax. virgil said:
VX Foxy said:
Never heard of SORN?
Blimey, do you not get TAX reminders in the post?? DOn;t see how that can have escaped you.Though I do find it gauling that I have to tell the government every year that Im not using a car I own that's kept on my private property!
falkster said:
virgil said:
Though I do find it gauling that I have to tell the government every year that Im not using a car I own that's kept on my private property!
Because they're not that good! How would they know that Virgil isn't going to be one of these divs that try to get away without paying his road tax. 
.Also, income generation for the country *cough* .
Job creation scheme for Swansea?
Errm. Dunno.
Imagine having the use of a car that's not linked to you and doesn't have your name on the V5C
! Leave all this database-enforcement nonsense behind...The SORN/taxation/continuous insurance requirements are broken (if not arguably totally and irreconcileably
d ), but unfortunately they are in existence and it's in our interest to comply to avoid financial penalties for what may well just be - and often is (I'd say there is just a small minority who take the mick, but we all face the same penalties regardless) - an oversight 
.(This is all tongue in cheek BTW
- but you get the drift?)Pothole said:
virgil said:
VX Foxy said:
Never heard of SORN?
Blimey, do you not get TAX reminders in the post?? DOn;t see how that can have escaped you.Though I do find it gauling that I have to tell the government every year that Im not using a car I own that's kept on my private property!
So I'll content myself with pointing out that Gaul encompassed not just most of modern France, but Luxembourg, Belgium, much of Switzerland, Northwest Italy, and parts of The Netherlands and Germany.
Streaky
falkster said:
Instead of the usual 'it never gets driven your honour' excuse it's replaced with a SORN thus meaning if anyone has a car that isn't sorned they must be using it on the road without taxing it.
... Or the owner has just forgotten to SORN it ... or genuinely didn't know that they had to.There used to be a principle called 'innocent until proven guilty' but that is being slowly and methodically done away with, the whole SORN rubbish being a prime example of the chipping away of liberties and forcing the public to comply with governmental control.
Still, having conditioned the public into accepting that they must submit paperwork on cars that aren't being used on the road (and are therefore absolutely no concern of the authorities) and paying fines if they don't jump through the bureaucratic hoops, the next step will be to introduce a charge for SORNing 'to cover costs'.
More money for nothing and less civil liberties - music to any politician/bureaucrat's ears.
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