Tax question

[Bigbro79]

Hi all

Forgive the ignorance as I haven’t purchased a car in many years .

I have purchased a new car from an approved used car garage . It is taxed until June 2025 by the garage that sold it to me

Do I need to tax it still?

[Percy Cushion]

Yes, this should have been done before leaving the dealer.

[Bigbro79]

apologies , I didn’t make myself clear . It is being delivered to my address tomorrow …

[paul_c123]

I can't believe an "approved used car dealer" wouldn't be registering vehicles into trade, thus they won't have tax on them while with them. Once its sold, tax becomes the responsibility of the new owner - easy enough to arrange with the new keeper slip.

It may be the garage is doing some kind of offer/sales incentive by saying its taxed for 6 months, which is perfectly possible and they could do this using the new keeper slip for you.

[LayZ]

Yes road fund licence is not transferrable, so you need to tax it to drive it on the road.

[Pica-Pica]

LayZ said:

Yes road fund licence is not transferrable, so you need to tax it to drive it on the road.

Or even to keep it on the road.

[griffter]

Check online (I think MOTInfo gives tax information as well). You may need the new keeper slip though, so have to wait until it’s delivered.

I bought a car recently and the dealer taxed it for me (in front of my eyes). I didn’t get an email confirmation though (still haven’t), just a paper confirmation days later. But I checked MOTInfo and confirmed it was taxed. Coming from trade it must have been “my” tax, so I could use the car.

[Sheepshanks]

Late 23 my wife got an approved used car that had just been registered to the dealer and the dealer taxed the car using my card details before we drove away. I was a bit miffed about the tax - normally buy new so it hadn’t occurred to me we’d have to pay it.

11 months later it transpired they hadn’t done the change of keeper! Car must have been taxed twice for the year.

Edited by Sheepshanks on Friday 17th January 08:55

[sixor8]

You MUST use the new keeper section ref number, the dealer must have done this. Incidentally, it is the same number as on the front but with an extra digit at the start.

If you buy VED (road tax) using the number on the front of the V5c, it is in the name of the existing owner and will be cancelled and refunded as soon as DVLA are notified of a new keeper.

[paul_c123]

sixor8 said:

If you buy VED (road tax) using the number on the front of the V5c, it is in the name of the existing owner and will be cancelled and refunded as soon as DVLA are notified of a new keeper.

If its been taken into the trade, they will have already got their refund when it went in. They won't get refunded twice, and I doubt the number on the front of the V5 will work. Only the new keeper slip.

[sixor8]

A trader should know what he's doing, yes, I was responding to the idea that they MAY need to use the new owner slip.