new car tax woes, again!
Discussion
Having read many rants from fellow members of pistonheads, I thought I was clued up on buying vehicle tax, its all pretty simple, tax stays with person and car, therefore I will have to sort out tax. No problem, there is an online system, but no I've still been foiled.
I've paid a deposit on my new car, the dealers given me the new keeper supplement reference number, I've organised my insurance to swap over, so head online to tax my car at which point I start having the problems. I enter all the details and discover the previous owner was claiming higher rate disability benefit, and the tax class is Disabled. Fair enough, a quick call to the helpful people at the DVLA should allow me to get the tax class switched, and Ill pay the tax, but NO. All they can do is direct me to the post office where I will have more paperwork to fill in to change the tax class, and then pay for my new tax over the counter. Now I will have to go and buy the car, apologise to the dealer for leaving it on his forecourt, walk 1/2 a mile to the post office, join the massive queue of people to tax my car, wasting an extra hour of my morning.
The bit that annoys me is the DVLA have assumed as a new owner of a car I will be disabled as well, surely a very rare occurence. A simple tick box on the V5 to confirm if the disabled tax class is required would easily fix this, and an option to tax it either way.
Grrrrr
I've paid a deposit on my new car, the dealers given me the new keeper supplement reference number, I've organised my insurance to swap over, so head online to tax my car at which point I start having the problems. I enter all the details and discover the previous owner was claiming higher rate disability benefit, and the tax class is Disabled. Fair enough, a quick call to the helpful people at the DVLA should allow me to get the tax class switched, and Ill pay the tax, but NO. All they can do is direct me to the post office where I will have more paperwork to fill in to change the tax class, and then pay for my new tax over the counter. Now I will have to go and buy the car, apologise to the dealer for leaving it on his forecourt, walk 1/2 a mile to the post office, join the massive queue of people to tax my car, wasting an extra hour of my morning.
The bit that annoys me is the DVLA have assumed as a new owner of a car I will be disabled as well, surely a very rare occurence. A simple tick box on the V5 to confirm if the disabled tax class is required would easily fix this, and an option to tax it either way.
Grrrrr
ks.Max5476 said:
Having read many rants from fellow members of pistonheads, I thought I was clued up on buying vehicle tax, its all pretty simple, tax stays with person and car, therefore I will have to sort out tax. No problem, there is an online system, but no I've still been foiled.
I've paid a deposit on my new car, the dealers given me the new keeper supplement reference number, I've organised my insurance to swap over, so head online to tax my car at which point I start having the problems. I enter all the details and discover the previous owner was claiming higher rate disability benefit, and the tax class is Disabled. Fair enough, a quick call to the helpful people at the DVLA should allow me to get the tax class switched, and Ill pay the tax, but NO. All they can do is direct me to the post office where I will have more paperwork to fill in to change the tax class, and then pay for my new tax over the counter. Now I will have to go and buy the car, apologise to the dealer for leaving it on his forecourt, walk 1/2 a mile to the post office, join the massive queue of people to tax my car, wasting an extra hour of my morning.
The bit that annoys me is the DVLA have assumed as a new owner of a car I will be disabled as well, surely a very rare occurence. A simple tick box on the V5 to confirm if the disabled tax class is required would easily fix this, and an option to tax it either way.
Grrrrr
Sounds like DVLA don't care so just continue to tax it as disabled which will save you all the hassle.I've paid a deposit on my new car, the dealers given me the new keeper supplement reference number, I've organised my insurance to swap over, so head online to tax my car at which point I start having the problems. I enter all the details and discover the previous owner was claiming higher rate disability benefit, and the tax class is Disabled. Fair enough, a quick call to the helpful people at the DVLA should allow me to get the tax class switched, and Ill pay the tax, but NO. All they can do is direct me to the post office where I will have more paperwork to fill in to change the tax class, and then pay for my new tax over the counter. Now I will have to go and buy the car, apologise to the dealer for leaving it on his forecourt, walk 1/2 a mile to the post office, join the massive queue of people to tax my car, wasting an extra hour of my morning.
The bit that annoys me is the DVLA have assumed as a new owner of a car I will be disabled as well, surely a very rare occurence. A simple tick box on the V5 to confirm if the disabled tax class is required would easily fix this, and an option to tax it either way.
Grrrrr
I bought a car for my sister the other evening and when I went to tax is asked me for the reference number on the new keeper slip, I entered this and it told me that the reference number needed to be 12 digits, this one was 11. So I checked another car and it was 11 too!
Long story short, I had to tax the car using the V5 reference number, so now when the DVLA will switch the old owner to my sister they will cancel her tax and refund it to her only so she has to do it again!!
Long story short, I had to tax the car using the V5 reference number, so now when the DVLA will switch the old owner to my sister they will cancel her tax and refund it to her only so she has to do it again!!
Im not so worried about the dealer, I am sure he will understand and I will only be an hour, but it is frustrating when I thought I had it all covered.
Which makes even more of a mockery of changing the tax class for the vehicle, its the person that's disabled, not the vehicle.
All that jazz said:
Sounds like DVLA don't care so just continue to tax it as disabled which will save you all the hassle.
No way of just getting the Disabled tax as you need to prove your entitlement to disability allowance on the next page. Which makes even more of a mockery of changing the tax class for the vehicle, its the person that's disabled, not the vehicle.
Edited by Max5476 on Friday 30th January 15:54
Max5476 said:
All they can do is direct me to the post office where I will have more paperwork to fill in to change the tax class, and then pay for my new tax over the counter. Now I will have to go and buy the car, apologise to the dealer for leaving it on his forecourt, walk 1/2 a mile to the post office, join the massive queue of people to tax my car, wasting an extra hour of my morning.
I'd have expected the dealer to sort that out.Maybe they can't?
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