Reported an untaxed car?
Reported an untaxed car?
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nxh66

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95 posts

173 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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About 8 weeks ago a st box of an 80's Mazda appeared in the road just down from my house, I've lived there 18 months and I've never seen it before. It looks like a pit inside but is fitted with a recent 6x9s and stereo.

Walking past one day I noted it has no tax disc so checked it out online and it had the last one refunded in Nov 2010 but has clearly been in regular use since, which also means no ins or MOT as far as I can see. This pissed me off so I reported it online.

6 weeks on and nothing, no police notice on the car and it hasn't moved an inch.

I'm now considering going sans MOT, ins and Tax as its obviously fine to do so. Any one else successfully reported an untaxed heap?

bimsb6

8,765 posts

250 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Why would it mean no insurance or mot ?

Milky Joe

3,851 posts

233 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicl...

or phone 101 and ask to speak to local RPU (traffic) base and pass the info and it can then be seized if stopped.

northandy

3,539 posts

250 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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bimsb6 said:
Why would it mean no insurance or mot ?
Seeing that the insurance is more expensive (probably) you would assume if they didnt buy tax insurance wouldnt be top of the list.


marshalla

15,902 posts

230 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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northandy said:
bimsb6 said:
Why would it mean no insurance or mot ?
Seeing that the insurance is more expensive (probably) you would assume if they didnt buy tax insurance wouldnt be top of the list.
If only www.askmid.com allowed one to check insurance on vehicles that one doesn't own.

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,918 posts

245 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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I don't as a rule get involved in other people's business, and have turned a blind eye to lots of things over the years, 'living and let living' type of thing.

But one thing that boils my piss is this kinda thing.

So yes, I will admit that on three occasions now i've reported untaxed cars. Not cars that have had a disc just out of date, but real piss takers that I see getting driven and parked up day after day with a disc that expired months ago.

You can do it anonymously on the DVLA's website - is easy.

There's one that I wish I could do something about, and have reported, but the owner obviously has a way of covering her arse. She's a right cantankerous old bag, living in a huge house in the middle of town, by herself. House must be worth £500k, and she's obviously got money. She recently had all the garden professionally landscaped with a big new wall and gates etc. She even has CCTV around the house!

Anyway she must have lived in Spain at some point, and maybe the loophole she uses is that possibly she still has a property there. But she lives here and is home pretty much all year round as far as I can see - her car is always in the drive.

The car is a BMW X3, and since I first saw it in 2007, it had, and still has Spanish plates on it now. Therefore has no UK road tax paid on it ever, despite her using it every day. It's left hand drive so I guess she bought it in Spain.

I thought that if you brought a car into the UK and used it for over 12 months you had to register it and pay road tax here.

She's been getting away without paying tax for at least 4 years somehow...it's kept on a driveway, so maybe that helps, and as I said before is possibly still registered to a Spanish address she owns or has relatives at.

Eitherway, it boils my piss to a very high level mad I reported it on the DVLA website two years ago but nothing's changed, so she obviously uses a loophole to carry on taking the piss...




nxh66

Original Poster:

95 posts

173 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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northandy said:
Seeing that the insurance is more expensive (probably) you would assume if they didnt buy tax insurance wouldnt be top of the list.
That and if you hit someone whilst driving an untaxed car the insurance would be invalid anyway unless you had proof of driving driving to the MOT etc.

e8_pack

1,384 posts

210 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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How do you check online?

66comanche

2,369 posts

188 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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nxh66 said:
northandy said:
Seeing that the insurance is more expensive (probably) you would assume if they didnt buy tax insurance wouldnt be top of the list.
That and if you hit someone whilst driving an untaxed car the insurance would be invalid anyway unless you had proof of driving driving to the MOT etc.
I don't think that's true though - maybe ZOLLAR or similar can confirm.

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,918 posts

245 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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66comanche said:
nxh66 said:
northandy said:
Seeing that the insurance is more expensive (probably) you would assume if they didnt buy tax insurance wouldnt be top of the list.
That and if you hit someone whilst driving an untaxed car the insurance would be invalid anyway unless you had proof of driving driving to the MOT etc.
I don't think that's true though - maybe ZOLLAR or similar can confirm.
Nah, that's an old wives tale. Insurance is still valid even without tax and mot.


CoolHands

23,424 posts

224 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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report it to the local council as 'abandoned'. That'll fk them up more than the dvla laugh

nxh66

Original Poster:

95 posts

173 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
Nah, that's an old wives tale. Insurance is still valid even without tax and mot.
Cheers, Interesting to know. I'd still be surprised if it is insured though, can't be worth more than scrap.

nxh66

Original Poster:

95 posts

173 months

Tuesday 24th April 2012
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james280779

1,931 posts

258 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
I don't as a rule get involved in other people's business, and have turned a blind eye to lots of things over the years, 'living and let living' type of thing.

But one thing that boils my piss is this kinda thing.

So yes, I will admit that on three occasions now i've reported untaxed cars. Not cars that have had a disc just out of date, but real piss takers that I see getting driven and parked up day after day with a disc that expired months ago.

You can do it anonymously on the DVLA's website - is easy.

There's one that I wish I could do something about, and have reported, but the owner obviously has a way of covering her arse. She's a right cantankerous old bag, living in a huge house in the middle of town, by herself. House must be worth £500k, and she's obviously got money. She recently had all the garden professionally landscaped with a big new wall and gates etc. She even has CCTV around the house!

Anyway she must have lived in Spain at some point, and maybe the loophole she uses is that possibly she still has a property there. But she lives here and is home pretty much all year round as far as I can see - her car is always in the drive.

The car is a BMW X3, and since I first saw it in 2007, it had, and still has Spanish plates on it now. Therefore has no UK road tax paid on it ever, despite her using it every day. It's left hand drive so I guess she bought it in Spain.

I thought that if you brought a car into the UK and used it for over 12 months you had to register it and pay road tax here.

She's been getting away without paying tax for at least 4 years somehow...it's kept on a driveway, so maybe that helps, and as I said before is possibly still registered to a Spanish address she owns or has relatives at.

Eitherway, it boils my piss to a very high level mad I reported it on the DVLA website two years ago but nothing's changed, so she obviously uses a loophole to carry on taking the piss...
foreign registered cars do not show up on the DVLA system, I have had hundreds of Polish/ Romanian etc. By law they have to be reregistered in the UK after (I think three months) but as usual with cuts there is nobody to follow up and with most vehicles the DVLA are unaware they are in the country (along with the drivers).
What I would do in this occasion (and I am known for being a sh*t). I would check her mail and get her details and as she has obviously forgotten, I would register it for her. Information/ application pack available from DVLA. Just 'forget' to include payment and let them follow her up for that!

All that jazz

7,632 posts

175 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
I don't as a rule get involved in other people's business, and have turned a blind eye to lots of things over the years, 'living and let living' type of thing.

But one thing that boils my piss is this kinda thing.

So yes, I will admit that on three occasions now i've reported untaxed cars. Not cars that have had a disc just out of date, but real piss takers that I see getting driven and parked up day after day with a disc that expired months ago.

You can do it anonymously on the DVLA's website - is easy.

There's one that I wish I could do something about, and have reported, but the owner obviously has a way of covering her arse. She's a right cantankerous old bag, living in a huge house in the middle of town, by herself. House must be worth £500k, and she's obviously got money. She recently had all the garden professionally landscaped with a big new wall and gates etc. She even has CCTV around the house!

Anyway she must have lived in Spain at some point, and maybe the loophole she uses is that possibly she still has a property there. But she lives here and is home pretty much all year round as far as I can see - her car is always in the drive.

The car is a BMW X3, and since I first saw it in 2007, it had, and still has Spanish plates on it now. Therefore has no UK road tax paid on it ever, despite her using it every day. It's left hand drive so I guess she bought it in Spain.

I thought that if you brought a car into the UK and used it for over 12 months you had to register it and pay road tax here.

She's been getting away without paying tax for at least 4 years somehow...it's kept on a driveway, so maybe that helps, and as I said before is possibly still registered to a Spanish address she owns or has relatives at.

Eitherway, it boils my piss to a very high level mad I reported it on the DVLA website two years ago but nothing's changed, so she obviously uses a loophole to carry on taking the piss...
Hilarious. So you "don't get involved in other people's business" yet you know pretty much every single detail of some random woman down the road and write big stories about what she does and what she gets up to on internet forums. Too funny.... hehe Your first line should in fact read "I do like to stick my beak into other people's lives, and in fact do so on a regular basis".

SMcP114

2,916 posts

221 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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All that jazz said:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
I don't as a rule get involved in other people's business, and have turned a blind eye to lots of things over the years, 'living and let living' type of thing.

But one thing that boils my piss is this kinda thing.

So yes, I will admit that on three occasions now i've reported untaxed cars. Not cars that have had a disc just out of date, but real piss takers that I see getting driven and parked up day after day with a disc that expired months ago.

You can do it anonymously on the DVLA's website - is easy.

There's one that I wish I could do something about, and have reported, but the owner obviously has a way of covering her arse. She's a right cantankerous old bag, living in a huge house in the middle of town, by herself. House must be worth £500k, and she's obviously got money. She recently had all the garden professionally landscaped with a big new wall and gates etc. She even has CCTV around the house!

Anyway she must have lived in Spain at some point, and maybe the loophole she uses is that possibly she still has a property there. But she lives here and is home pretty much all year round as far as I can see - her car is always in the drive.

The car is a BMW X3, and since I first saw it in 2007, it had, and still has Spanish plates on it now. Therefore has no UK road tax paid on it ever, despite her using it every day. It's left hand drive so I guess she bought it in Spain.

I thought that if you brought a car into the UK and used it for over 12 months you had to register it and pay road tax here.

She's been getting away without paying tax for at least 4 years somehow...it's kept on a driveway, so maybe that helps, and as I said before is possibly still registered to a Spanish address she owns or has relatives at.

Eitherway, it boils my piss to a very high level mad I reported it on the DVLA website two years ago but nothing's changed, so she obviously uses a loophole to carry on taking the piss...
Hilarious. So you "don't get involved in other people's business" yet you know pretty much every single detail of some random woman down the road and write big stories about what she does and what she gets up to on internet forums. Too funny.... hehe Your first line should in fact read "I do like to stick my beak into other people's lives, and in fact do so on a regular basis".
biglaugh

lawrence567

7,507 posts

219 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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I've reported a neighbours car, they parked in such a way it meant i could'nt get in the driveway.
The road is so narrow that where they parked cars could barely get past & you'd often see people swearing as they tried to squeeze past & they'd regularly beep their horn but the wker would just watch people from inside the house.
I did'nt say anything for a couple of months, so just waited for his tax disk to be out of date then reported it via the DVLA site.
I hav'nt seen the car since!

CoolHands

23,424 posts

224 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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I've seen a Bulgarian plated merc (some 'I'm a Big Cheese' one) every day for probably about 4 years. This is in Harrow, North West London.

Nice work if you can get it rolleyes

TinyCappo

2,106 posts

182 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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call one of them all cars bought for cash.......s will weigh in anything wink

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,918 posts

245 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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SMcP114 said:
All that jazz said:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
I don't as a rule get involved in other people's business, and have turned a blind eye to lots of things over the years, 'living and let living' type of thing.

But one thing that boils my piss is this kinda thing.

So yes, I will admit that on three occasions now i've reported untaxed cars. Not cars that have had a disc just out of date, but real piss takers that I see getting driven and parked up day after day with a disc that expired months ago.

You can do it anonymously on the DVLA's website - is easy.

There's one that I wish I could do something about, and have reported, but the owner obviously has a way of covering her arse. She's a right cantankerous old bag, living in a huge house in the middle of town, by herself. House must be worth £500k, and she's obviously got money. She recently had all the garden professionally landscaped with a big new wall and gates etc. She even has CCTV around the house!

Anyway she must have lived in Spain at some point, and maybe the loophole she uses is that possibly she still has a property there. But she lives here and is home pretty much all year round as far as I can see - her car is always in the drive.

The car is a BMW X3, and since I first saw it in 2007, it had, and still has Spanish plates on it now. Therefore has no UK road tax paid on it ever, despite her using it every day. It's left hand drive so I guess she bought it in Spain.

I thought that if you brought a car into the UK and used it for over 12 months you had to register it and pay road tax here.

She's been getting away without paying tax for at least 4 years somehow...it's kept on a driveway, so maybe that helps, and as I said before is possibly still registered to a Spanish address she owns or has relatives at.

Eitherway, it boils my piss to a very high level mad I reported it on the DVLA website two years ago but nothing's changed, so she obviously uses a loophole to carry on taking the piss...
Hilarious. So you "don't get involved in other people's business" yet you know pretty much every single detail of some random woman down the road and write big stories about what she does and what she gets up to on internet forums. Too funny.... hehe Your first line should in fact read "I do like to stick my beak into other people's lives, and in fact do so on a regular basis".
biglaugh
biggrin Hmm, on re-reading the post - it does come across a little...stalkerish - I grant you!

And as for writing stories on internet forums - what are you doing here then, eh? hehe Besides, it's a story about a car, so if it has to go on the internet - this is the place for it, right?

Only reason I am so familiar, is that her house is next door to my business, so I saw the situation every single day - and every single day, it boiled my piss.

Also, as said, she's a local busybody who comes out to moan at anything she doesn't like - she doesn't work, so spends her days worrying about what goes on in the vicinity of her house. Cars parking in the yard to the side? Straight into my shop - 'who's car is this, it's parked illegally in a private yard - you'd better move it or I'll call the police...'

Put your wheelybin out the night before collection day? Oh, she doesn't like that - she pops out later and moves it back...'it's illegal to put these bins out the night before and it makes the street look untidy' apparrently... rolleyes

So we have to put up with all her moaning AND the fact that she blatantly avoids paying the tax that the rest of us have to.


See why it annoys me so much now??!!