Taxing a car I just bought with green slip?

[Liquid Tuna]

I'm picking up a car at the weekend and it has no tax. The current owner can't tax it. Can I tax it at a post office with an MOT certificate, certificate of insurance, and the small green slip from the V5 as the current owner will be sending the V5 off?

[xRIEx]

Yes

[Marlin45]

Double YES !

[PompeyPaul]

TRIPLE yes! That is all..

[Heartworm]

And yes again, I did this with my Supra.

[NHK244V]

Quadruple yes (no idea how to spell then one for 5), that's what the green slip is for after all

[anonymous-user]

just a quick question, have you read the green slip as it states clearly on there you can.

[Heartworm]

billybob69 said:

just a quick question, have you read the green slip as it states clearly on there you can.

I'd imagine since this was initially asked on Wednesday about a car being collected at the weekend the slip wasn't available to check.

[tog]

Technically you can only do this once on the green slip. I've bought a car from a dealer that he had taxed on the green slip as he was using the car himself. When I bought the car they were a bit suspicious and eventually only issued a new tax disc because the previous post office hadn't stamped over the barcode which they should have.