OK been reported in the press. There is one point that seems to be missed.
I actually transferred the owner /registered keep on Tuesday so beat the change....but
If I had taken a secondhand card as of today , the tax is refunded to the seller and the buyer has to tax immediately..... but how ? You have to fill in the the form V5C and post it off and until they process it the registered keeper has not changed , so the car will show as taxed . At some point the DVLA will change the status to not taxed when they refund the seller. The buyer has nothing to use to tax the vehicle or any reference to go online.
As far as I can see there is no online way of changing the registered keeper. Do you go to a post office (if you can find one) , and what will they do ?
I am sure someone on here will have the magic answer , but searching the DVLA site I can't see how. I just says you have to tax it , but not how !!!
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The whole new system seems to be half-thought at best.
The old system 10 minutes to tax the car, the other night it took me nearly 2 hours. And, according to the press, there was people who suffered much worse than that.
Maybe the whole thing is badly designed so as to make people default and not pay/struggle to pay, and then catch a bunch at £1000 a pop over the next month....
Edit, sorry, a bit of a rant.
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So can I now take my tax disc off the car?
Yes. And you can burn it. Or shove it upi your ass, Whichever you like.
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