Car tax evasion, they get you in the end!

[Amelie]

Well they have me, i just walked down to get my car (in uni) and i have been clamped! I have to pay £80 plus a tax disc to have it removed. If i leave it past 24 hours it goes up to £160!

It appears they are targeting students as another few have been done. Its the DVLA that have done it btw.

It was due in October, so can i do it now from this date, bummer like that is was not the beginning Feb as i will loose this month. Surley i don't have to back date it- is that not what the fine is for?

 

[Saysay]

Well they have me, i just walked down to get my car (in uni) and i have been clamped! I have to pay £80 plus a tax disc to have it removed. If i leave it past 24 hours it goes up to £160!

It appears they are targeting students as another few have been done. Its the DVLA that have done it btw.

It was due in October, so can i do it now from this date, bummer like that is was not the beginning Feb as i will loose this month. Surley i don't have to back date it- is that not what the fine is for?

When we first bought our car it didnt have tax, Lee had to drive it back from Liverpool and park it outside our house till he got some, but early the next day it had a police notice on it, we think some bastard rung the police!! Anyway Lee had to backdate his, which meant we lost out on a month, doesnt make sense really because you pay a fine! It's just any excuse for us to pay more money imo.

 

[Amelie]

After reading the lit they left it turns out yes i have to back date it as well as pay the fine and get tax.

Plus the office to go and pay fine and show tax is about 50 miles away .

The worst thing was, i parked right outside uni on the main road. All the students were queing for the bus, and the primary school opposite was letting off lots of kids from swimming or something. I had to pull off a fuck-off huge yellow sticker which said 'unpaid tax' lol. This matchted the father fetching yellow wheel clamp. I am still a little pink from the shame.

 

[dods]

Well they have me, i just walked down to get my car (in uni) and i have been clamped! I have to pay £80 plus a tax disc to have it removed. If i leave it past 24 hours it goes up to £160!

It appears they are targeting students as another few have been done. Its the DVLA that have done it btw.

It was due in October, so can i do it now from this date, bummer like that is was not the beginning Feb as i will loose this month. Surley i don't have to back date it- is that not what the fine is for?

i reckon you will still have to back date it chick
i had to do when i was a month late once

 

[northern minx]

sorry to hear that darling.. not good is it.. the buggers got me last year and i had to have mine backdated, coz i couldnt prove that my car had been off-road since the date that my tax ran out .. and their argument was, if it had been genuinely off-road i would have filled in the Sworn document.
they also reminded me that whilst driving without tax it makes your insurance invalid.. so ive been taxed ever since (need to be with the cars that keep crashing into back of me!)

anyhows, good luck with sorting it out, and hopefully the cash will come from somewhere out of the blue

 

[grad]

is that all you get?

it'd be cheaper for me not to tax mine...I did mine a few weeks ago, should of been done at the end of dec. I did notice somethin about a £1000 fine if there's a gap between the last disc and the new one unless it's been off the road.

 

[Amelie]

is that all you get?

it'd be cheaper for me not to tax mine...I did mine a few weeks ago, should of been done at the end of dec. I did notice somethin about a £1000 fine if there's a gap between the last disc and the new one unless it's been off the road.

No you have to pay the fine, plus the tax backdated. As i said, lucky i have the cash as if you don't go within 24 hours it doubles to £160 plus you still need the tax.

 

[grad]

erm ok, i wasn't sure as you weren't sure...but i think you've just answered your own question..

 

[ruffers]

There are some laws worth breaking, some worth trying it on a bit, and some it's pointless trying.

This is one of the latter....the only way round it is to SORN it and take the risk no one notices or reports you're using it on the road, and that ain't worth it.

Have you got a TV licence?

 

[nics]

Ouch, soz to hear that ur now skint!!

Ive never gone without tax on my car, but i did go without insurance for six months and i soon sorted that out when it got nicked!!!

I know it skints you having a car and all the tax and insurance that goes with it, but it is worth it incase somebody hits you or nicks ur car!!

 

[sqwali]

yeah brilliant

yeah IS RIGHT good one ya should pay ur tax i do and loads insurance i bet ya not even got that either so good 1 furthermore ur are a student so even more brilliant

 

[piratepete]

ripo off road tax

due to large delays on building land rovers upo to 2yrs back in the 70s
my land rover misses out on being ta exempt
it was paid for b4 the ex goverments cut off date but recived after
thus meaning i pay near 200 quid per year
i travel more miles offroad than on road lol

were taxed on evrything ....
road tax imho is one of the worst rip offs
the govt did a study in road tax after the rac did a survey of 10k peeps
the rac survey was
if u were in favor of aboloshing road tax ,for a more fair system of a slight 2-3p tax increase on petrol (which is mostly tax anyway) 97% of peeps were in favor

thinking about it even though petrol takes the piss on tax,
you wouldnt have to fork out that big wodge of cash for road tax
it would be on petrol deisel lpg ect .
ok so you would pay for it as such but not in the big wodge

meaning u drive more you pay more than someone who drives less
which imo is fair
if you drive more thus in theory ,doing more road damage wear and tear
you pay for it .

annother bonus of this is peeps will want more economic cars
who would end up paying even less becouse of high mpg.
bad if u drive a gas guzzler like me 24mpg rofl
strange thing is i am in favor of it

but i dont think the govt would do something like this cos it misses one form of transport elecky cars lol

 

[ruffers]

Road pricing will come, and you're right it is fairer. Can't see it being through an extra levy on fuel though, more on tags/plate readers.

If it replaces tax discs fair enough.
If it's as well as, which seems a lot more likely, than they'll have problems.


Remember, a couple of hundred attention seeking farmers can screw all our lives up when they decide to block fuel depots.

 

[ilovepiano]

I've been a student for the last 5 years and my car has always been taxed and insured. I think it's only fair that you have to backdate it to October.

 

[sqwali]

Yes Yes

is rite well said

 

[nathan]

lol @ woody

There are some laws worth breaking, some worth trying it on a bit, and some it's pointless trying.

This is one of the latter....the only way round it is to SORN it and take the risk no one notices or reports you're using it on the road, and that ain't worth it.

Have you got a TV licence?

Just what I was thinking. What are these people doing driving around without tax discs!!! Are you all loopy?

 

[milenko/]

its bollocks road tax!

every time im on my BMX im always hitting or dodging potholes in the fucking road, and it aint doing me rims any good

people pay the tax but it doesnt get spent on maintainig the roads it goes on fucking traffic calming measures such as speed bumps and mini fucking rounda fucking bouts