Car Registration
Discussion
Here's a scenario and I wondered what's legally wrong with it?
Lets say I set up a Ltd company, based offshore so there wouldn't be any publically listed directors.
That company buys a car, so the car is owned by the company, as well as being the registered keeper.
The DVLA I believe allow for any address within the UK as long as the keeper can be contacted. What if the company paid for a mail ordering policy and any and all letters would be scanned to an email address.
What am I missing here? Surely this would make a car appear to any automated checks as legit but actually the keeper, and therefore driver untraceable?
Lets say I set up a Ltd company, based offshore so there wouldn't be any publically listed directors.
That company buys a car, so the car is owned by the company, as well as being the registered keeper.
The DVLA I believe allow for any address within the UK as long as the keeper can be contacted. What if the company paid for a mail ordering policy and any and all letters would be scanned to an email address.
What am I missing here? Surely this would make a car appear to any automated checks as legit but actually the keeper, and therefore driver untraceable?
The car still needs to be taxed and insured if you don't want an ANPR ping, assuming there's ever a TrafPol around to do anything about it.
Registered keeper is fairly meaningless apart from being the point of contact for speeding/parking tickets, but it would probably be easier to just find a HMO and register it there under a fake name if that's what you're after avoiding. There'll be so much mail for old tenants it will likely just go straight in the bin and you'll get the same effect.
Registered keeper is fairly meaningless apart from being the point of contact for speeding/parking tickets, but it would probably be easier to just find a HMO and register it there under a fake name if that's what you're after avoiding. There'll be so much mail for old tenants it will likely just go straight in the bin and you'll get the same effect.
Insurance / the MID.
It would be hard to obtain insurance in an offshore co. name and if you use your name, they've got you.
However many seem to register cars in their "Uncle's" name and drive on "Trade" insurance, many more simply don't have any insurance etc
I'm reliably informed that you are very unlikely to get caught more than once a year - so run a sub £1k car / van and you're onto a winner.
Tax can only be bought once using the green slip. If you do it online - again they have a name, so you have to change your car annually
It would be hard to obtain insurance in an offshore co. name and if you use your name, they've got you.
However many seem to register cars in their "Uncle's" name and drive on "Trade" insurance, many more simply don't have any insurance etc
I'm reliably informed that you are very unlikely to get caught more than once a year - so run a sub £1k car / van and you're onto a winner.
Tax can only be bought once using the green slip. If you do it online - again they have a name, so you have to change your car annually
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