Road tax refund (bought car, now returning)

[cylon]

Morning,

I purchased a car yesterday and taxed the vehicle online before driving back home. The options listed were impressive on the ad hence buying,
I completely missed to check a number of the toys on the car at the time of sale and only when I get home I checked they were missing.

Anyway private dealer has been great and said bring car back for full refund..

How does one go about receiving a refund for the road tax and how do I go about it? Do I need to wait for the V5?

Thanks

[Soloman Dodd]

Yes, the change of ownership can be done online with the V5 reference, and that triggers an automatic VED refund.

[cylon]

I don't have the v5 yet, as I only have the green slip which I used to tax online, he should have the original V5 since I bough yesterday evening. Would I need to wait for it come through post before refund could be issued?

[Trevor555]

What's a private dealer? Is that what they called themselves?

Anyhow, the DVLA will only refund to the registered keeper so if the dealer did the V5 change you'll get it through the post when the next keeper is changed, or you fill out the yellow slip when the V5 arrives with you.

Ask the dealer if they did the V5 change as many dealers wait a week in case of returns.

If the dealer hasn't done the ownership change then you won't be able get it.

Edited by Trevor555 on Saturday 2nd April 10:33

[cylon]

suspecting he wont have sent it off yet, meant as in not a main car dealer, like audi/bmw/merc, just a standard car trader.

So i'll need to have him send it off, before any refunds can be given?

[Trevor555]

cylon said:

suspecting he wont have sent it off yet, meant as in not a main car dealer, like audi/bmw/merc, just a standard car trader.

So i'll need to have him send it off, before any refunds can be given?

Yes, they need to change the ownership to you for you to get your refund.

They may not be keen on adding a an owner if they haven't already done the change.

So you need to ask them about the money you've paid for your RFL as you wont get it if they don't change the ownership to you.

They might grumble, and you'll have to say it's down to them as their advertising was wrong/misleading.

You could call DVLA to explain the situation, but when I've had this in the past they've told me to do a V62 to register the car in my name.

[Saleen836]

Also, at a guess you are aware you will have paid RFL for the month of March and will most likely lose the cost for the month of April when applying got the refund