DVLA site i have no tax
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GolfGT_Girl said:
thinfourth said:
According to DVLA site the tax ran on my car end of feb but looking at car it is end of may on the tax disc
How big a fine am i going to get?
How big a fine am i going to get?
photo copy the tax disc and send it to the DVLA
I got the usual "you aren't taxed" letter and a demand for money. Send 'em a colour photocopy of the disc and made 'em write back saying that the details had been properly corrected.
I was properly cheesed off that they just sent a bill - rather than a polite enquiry as to whether or not their records were up to date - but that's the way of things these days. Guilty until procen innocent - if you're a motorist.
GolfGT_Girl said:
thinfourth said:
According to DVLA site the tax ran on my car end of feb but looking at car it is end of may on the tax disc
How big a fine am i going to get?
How big a fine am i going to get?
photo copy the tax disc and send it to the DVLA
Ermm..I'd do nothing. You've not been told of a problem, nor is there one. Why cause trouble for yourself by pointing out that a database is wrong.
If you have any proof of where / when you bought the disc, hang on to that, but in the meantime, unless you hear anything from them I wouldn't worry about it. If you do hear from them, tell them you have a disc.
tigger1 said:
GolfGT_Girl said:
thinfourth said:
According to DVLA site the tax ran on my car end of feb but looking at car it is end of may on the tax disc
How big a fine am i going to get?
How big a fine am i going to get?
photo copy the tax disc and send it to the DVLA
Ermm..I'd do nothing. You've not been told of a problem, nor is there one. Why cause trouble for yourself by pointing out that a database is wrong.
If you have any proof of where / when you bought the disc, hang on to that, but in the meantime, unless you hear anything from them I wouldn't worry about it. If you do hear from them, tell them you have a disc.
That advice from tigger1 is bad advice imho.
The point is that while the database is wrong if OP drives past an ANPR check or encounters a traffic unit so equipped his vehicle will be flagged up and a pull will result.
At that point he is on back foot and trying to argue out of his car being seized. Law of Sod ensures that will happen at the most inconvenient time/place imaginable.
see Computer says no thread.
Advice, get it sorted pronto. Put everything in writing, even if you are merely following up a phone call, keep copies, send mail special delivery where you get proof of delivery, NOT recorded delivery. (Reasons techncal Royal Mail issue, recorded delivery = expensive joke)
If you follow the advice to do nothing at some point you'll be on shanks's and facing a bill for vehicle towing and recovery. It's a bar steward I know but get it sorted, you know it makes sense.
FiF
PS DVD sorry for taking a different stance to you oh obi-wan
Edited by Flat in Fifth on Monday 26th March 14:11
Flat in Fifth said:
tigger1 said:
GolfGT_Girl said:
thinfourth said:
According to DVLA site the tax ran on my car end of feb but looking at car it is end of may on the tax disc
How big a fine am i going to get?
How big a fine am i going to get?
photo copy the tax disc and send it to the DVLA
Ermm..I'd do nothing. You've not been told of a problem, nor is there one. Why cause trouble for yourself by pointing out that a database is wrong.
If you have any proof of where / when you bought the disc, hang on to that, but in the meantime, unless you hear anything from them I wouldn't worry about it. If you do hear from them, tell them you have a disc.
That advice from tigger1 is bad advice imho.
The point is that while the database is wrong if OP drives past an ANPR check or encounters a traffic unit so equipped his vehicle will be flagged up and a pull will result.
At that point he is on back foot and trying to argue out of his car being seized. Law of Sod ensures that will happen at the most inconvenient time/place imaginable.
see Computer says no thread.
Advice, get it sorted pronto. Put everything in writing, even if you are merely following up a phone call, keep copies, send mail special delivery where you get proof of delivery, NOT recorded delivery. (Reasons techncal Royal Mail issue, recorded delivery = expensive joke)
If you follow the advice to do nothing at some point you'll be on shanks's and facing a bill for vehicle towing and recovery. It's a bar steward I know but get it sorted, you know it makes sense.
FiF
PS DVD sorry for taking a different stance to you oh obi-wan
Edited by Flat in Fifth on Monday 26th March 14:11
Perhaps - but I would vary my chosen action depending on how long it is until new tax is needed, and then obviously if a reminder is forthcoming.
Soreright fif..
I forgot your opinion of the boys in blue???????? (DUCKS)
If the Licence is cosher then that will be disclosed at any pull and a rasberry commited by DVLA.
Take on board your thought but at this stage it is only the DVLA Website that is showing this.....notta Gospel.
dvd
I forgot your opinion of the boys in blue???????? (DUCKS)
If the Licence is cosher then that will be disclosed at any pull and a rasberry commited by DVLA.
Take on board your thought but at this stage it is only the DVLA Website that is showing this.....notta Gospel.
dvd
okay to save me dealing with the mindless beast that is the DVLA and maybe ending up with my car reregistered as a plantpot or something similar could a plod stick the reg into their computer and see what it sayes M361XFC
car currently off the road on a trailer on my drive though i am sure this also illegal in some way
car currently off the road on a trailer on my drive though i am sure this also illegal in some way
Whilst one is in possession of a tax disc and the DVLA thinks one is not one might as well fix the problem by writing to 'em....if its a bug in the website software you're doing them a favour. If its an error in their database you might well save yerself being pulled unnecessarily...
Sometimes I think the DVLA is staffed by morons - other times I KNOW they are.
Couple of weeks back had a letter demanding £80 for not sorning a vehicle Reg No N*** *** a Renault Clio. Found this strange beacuse only the end of last year the vehicle was involved in accident, was written off and I transferred the 'Cherished No' off it to it's replacement and claimed a refund on the several months VED remaining.
The transfer went through and the 'Cherished No' now resides on the new car and a draft was issued for the VED refund.
Spoke to them and asked how the hell could the Clio not be sorned when the had only just sent me a cheque for unused VED on it. "Hoh Hah Hummm........ Sorry it's a computer error (a phrase I HATE - it's not computers that make errors, it's the feckwits that operate them) ignore the letter" Further discusion showed up that they still had the Cherished No registered to the Clio even though I all the docs to show they had transferred it to the Pug AND the had issued a disk in that number for the Pug.
*IF* the police have to work with databases this inaccurate is it any wonder people have doubts about the efficacey of the confiscation laws.
BB
Couple of weeks back had a letter demanding £80 for not sorning a vehicle Reg No N*** *** a Renault Clio. Found this strange beacuse only the end of last year the vehicle was involved in accident, was written off and I transferred the 'Cherished No' off it to it's replacement and claimed a refund on the several months VED remaining.
The transfer went through and the 'Cherished No' now resides on the new car and a draft was issued for the VED refund.
Spoke to them and asked how the hell could the Clio not be sorned when the had only just sent me a cheque for unused VED on it. "Hoh Hah Hummm........ Sorry it's a computer error (a phrase I HATE - it's not computers that make errors, it's the feckwits that operate them) ignore the letter" Further discusion showed up that they still had the Cherished No registered to the Clio even though I all the docs to show they had transferred it to the Pug AND the had issued a disk in that number for the Pug.
*IF* the police have to work with databases this inaccurate is it any wonder people have doubts about the efficacey of the confiscation laws.
BB
Update
I am a criminal Woo Hoo
£80 fine for not paying my tax
Went to see the local DVLA office and they said they could do nothing despite that is where i bought the tax disc from Which does raise the point WTF are they there for
So post off loads of copys of the tax disc and wait for my court summons
Useless feckers
I am a criminal Woo Hoo
£80 fine for not paying my tax
Went to see the local DVLA office and they said they could do nothing despite that is where i bought the tax disc from Which does raise the point WTF are they there for
So post off loads of copys of the tax disc and wait for my court summons
Useless feckers
tigger1 said:
Fingers crossed that you have all the receipts.
That's the key thing. If you have the Tax Disc itself and a receipt showing who you paid for it you are onto a winner. Even just having the disc is good enough. I didn't have to go to court - a letter was sufficient.
If you are clearly innocent of not taxing the car and its a cock-up the DVLA do not want to incur the costs and botheration of taking you to court. And who want the botheration themselves? If this case ends up in court all that will happen is that the OP will produce the tax disc as evidence and the whole thing will be thrown out in short order.
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