Car road tax - caught.

[crankedup5]

Today one of my cars were clamped by DVLA for having no road fund licence payment. £100 fine and of course needed to pay for new road fund licence. Complete oversight on my part but in the past I had always received through the post a tax reminder, not this time, hence my oversight.
Has the DVLA stopped issuing tax reminders ?

[Largechris]

Prison is too good for you, appalling.

[crankedup5]

Yup, first motoring offence in 55 years.

[kambites]

crankedup5 said:

Has the DVLA stopped issuing tax reminders ?

I don't think I've had a reminder for years, but that might be because I pay it by direct debit.

[crankedup5]

kambites said:

crankedup5 said:

Has the DVLA stopped issuing tax reminders ?

I don't think I've had a reminder for years, but that might be because I pay it by direct debit.

I always pay in one lump online. Tax would have been due end of December.

[Monkeylegend]

kambites said:

crankedup5 said:

Has the DVLA stopped issuing tax reminders ?

I don't think I've had a reminder for years, but that might be because I pay it by direct debit.

They always send you a confirmation and thank you for renewing your road tax email with DD payment even if if is a once a year payment rather than monthly.

[alangla]

I had one a couple of weeks ago, arrived in the first couple of days of the month for tax expiring on 31st March, as per usual.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

crankedup5 said:

Has the DVLA stopped issuing tax reminders ?

Well the lazy tts have stopped doing everything else so it's possible.

[toon10]

Have you moved house? The only time I've not received a reminder was when I moved and informed DVLA by sending my driving license off with the address change. Turns out that the driving license department and car tax department have different systems that don't talk to each other. My reminder went to my old address.

[kambites]

Monkeylegend said:

They always send you a confirmation and thank you for renewing your road tax email with DD payment even if if is a once a year payment rather than monthly.

Yes, I get that. But I don't think I get anything saying it's about to expire.

[Monkeylegend]

kambites said:

Monkeylegend said:

They always send you a confirmation and thank you for renewing your road tax email with DD payment even if if is a once a year payment rather than monthly.

Yes, I get that. But I don't think I get anything saying it's about to expire.

Nor me, so we are not really helping are we

Actually thinking about it they did send a reminder for our Picasso which is the one payment of £30 for the year.

[MikeM6]

crankedup5 said:

Today one of my cars were clamped by DVLA for having no road fund licence payment. £100 fine and of course needed to pay for new road fund licence. Complete oversight on my part but in the past I had always received through the post a tax reminder, not this time, hence my oversight.
Has the DVLA stopped issuing tax reminders ?

We still get reminders as we use the code issued on the letter to tax the cars.

[lufbramatt]

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

crankedup5 said:

Has the DVLA stopped issuing tax reminders ?

Well the lazy tts have stopped doing everything else so it's possible.

One of my cars is currently SORNed and the DVLA keep sending me letters asking "are you SURE its off the road? cos you're in trouble if it's not. give us some money" or words to that effect.

[kambites]

Monkeylegend said:

Nor me, so we are not really helping are we

Not much.

But I'm sure they used to send out letters saying it's about to expire even if you had a DD set up.

[vikingaero]

I did this a few years ago. About a dozen cars too look after, all with similar registrations - A8ABC, A88ABC, A888ABC etc (Not the actual regs, but similar). So when I saw the reminder, I thought I'd taxed it.

The guy had just finished installing the clamp when I pulled around the corner and I though bugger, but a fair cop. He was perfectly understanding. I went online and paid within 5 minutes and called them up, I was expecting it to take them a couple of days to get around to declamping it, but he turned up 20 mins later.

[Green1man]

I get reminders, maybe there’s a way online of requesting or opting out from reminders?

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

lufbramatt said:

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

crankedup5 said:

Has the DVLA stopped issuing tax reminders ?

Well the lazy tts have stopped doing everything else so it's possible.

One of my cars is currently SORNed and the DVLA keep sending me letters asking "are you SURE its off the road? cos you're in trouble if it's not. give us some money" or words to that effect.

They've had my wife's passport for a couple of months now which has meant we've had to cancel a holiday this weekend - they really are an utter st show.

The only reason they have the passport is because her title wording is slightly different between passport and DL...so online renewal failed. It failed because the advisor gave incorrect advice.

They're uncontactable too. Hopefully the recent expose will see a lot of folks sacked and a major restructure. Other gov agencies seemed to have coped OK.

[off_again]

Was talking to friend about this earlier today!

I got busted driving my, at that time, untaxed and no MOT Golf to the test station! Where I lived there wasnt one locally, so had the appointment and all paperwork with me to get it all sorted (when you had to go to the Post Office). Got pulled, given a ticket. Had all of the paperwork with me, but PC Plod didnt take it. Told me to appeal. Tried appealing, but DVLA said I should have planned better and hit me with a big fine. Best they could do was to not give me points.

Seriously, even though you are allowed to drive to the test station, they screwed me anyway. My point? They have been screwing people over for years - any opportunity to hit you with a fine, they will. Its all about revenue generation and an expectation that some people will forget, paperwork will get lost or just not get it done in time.

[crankedup5]

It’s a strange thing but I’m positive that I didn’t get a reminder about my road tax, not much I can do about it now but raised the issue ‘just to see’ if others had been wheel clamped.
That was the other thing the car was clamped and had to contact the DVLA agent who goes around looking for untaxed vehicles to clamp. I had no idea such a thing existed and thought at first that it was a scam. It wasn’t.

The other issue was when I looked up on the GOV car tax web site it indicated that the car was SORNED, not by me it wasn’t, but the car was taxed!
Seems the DVLA are in a complete mess.

[ohidunno]

I didn’t get a reminder for one of my cars on which the tax ran out at the end of March, I did get a reminder letter from the DVLA last week though with quite a lot of red ink on in. No fine though.
I’m sure I didn’t get a first reminder though as I’m good at dealing with post and like to pay bills ASAP