Can i tax it

[racall]

As some of you know i.ve just bought a slk for the summer:bannana:
I will be collecting it on this friday 1st may and is on sorn

It has a current mot

As its a second car i,ve insured it from friday 1st may.

Now can i tax it this thursday 30th april ?

I know the Mot must be current on the day the tax starts but if i tax it on thursday they might not do it as the insurance isnt valid until friday.


The problem(small one) is that we are going to dublin for the weekend and i wont be able to tax it until tuesday the 5th of may.

Advice please
Many thanks

 

[SilverSaloon]

As some of you know i.ve just bought a slk for the summer:bannana:
I will be collecting it on this friday 1st may and is on sorn

It has a current mot

As its a second car i,ve insured it from friday 1st may.

Now can i tax it this thursday 30th april ?

I know the Mot must be current on the day the tax starts but if i tax it on thursday they might not do it as the insurance isnt valid until friday.


The problem(small one) is that we are going to dublin for the weekend and i wont be able to tax it until tuesday the 5th of may.

Advice please
Many thanks

you need to produce the insurance document when you tax it so i guess not. if you do it online it also has to be recorded as insured (and the disc will be posted to previous owner aswell). if the previous owner already has it insured, ask them to tax it for you before you pick it up and you pay for it.

alternatively, insure it from today and hope the certificate arrives intime for you to take it to the post office to tax. you dont need to own the car to insure it, just insure the reg num

hope this helps!

 

[Ted]

You cant tax a vehicle on sorn until the actual month you wish to tax it from.
E.g. I wanted my tax disc for the bike for the 1st April. Tried one week early - only allowed from 1 March, even tried on 31 March - no joy for April.
So even if your car was insured from 1 May, you can only tax it from the beginning of the current month.

 

[racall]

i cant tax it on line as i only have the transfer slip and if the dealer taxes it it will add an other owner.

 

[racall]

You cant tax a vehicle on sorn until the actual month you wish to tax it from.
E.g. I wanted my tax disc for the bike for the 1st April. Tried one week early - only allowed from 1 March, even tried on 31 March - no joy for April.
So even if your car was insured from 1 May, you can only tax it from the beginning of the current month.

Thanks that was what i thought.
I wont have time to tax it on friday morning as we dont want to miss that ryanair flight

I think i will leave it on my friends drive and tax it first thing tuesday after the bank holiday.

Off topic i heard guiness is 6 euros a pint in dublin

 

[Meldrew2]

You could always tax it over the internet on 1st May. Dublin has plenty of internet cafes.....

Don't miss the Jameson's Distillery Tour (hic!)

 

[racall]

You could always tax it over the internet on 1st May. Dublin has plenty of internet cafes.....

Don't miss the Jameson's Distillery Tour (hic!)

Thats a thought but ive only got the owner transfer slip and not the full registration document yet.

 

[Will]

To concur with Ted, you can't tax a SORNed or untaxed vehicle in advance of the month in which the tax is due to start - ie, you'll have to wait until 1st May minimum until taxing it (regardless of the insurance issue).

I'd be tempted to wait until the 1st of May and tax it upon collection.

Will

 

[glojo]

The thing to also remember is that although you are only talking about 24 ours... The DVLA will not look at it in the same light

If we take a gamble and risk driving the car for those 24hrs without the tax then boy will it work out to be very expensive.

respect to you for asking but to use it on the last day of April, then it must be taxed from the first of April

 

[racall]

I wont be collecting it until the 1st may,I wanted to get it taxed before as we are going on good old ryanair to dublin for the weekend.

 

[gina2201]

Could the dealer deliver it to you on dealer plates?

Or if you are willing to drive it home(?).

I hate car tax when all you want to do is be a GOOD citizen and pay it yet they make these silly rules which inconvenience everything.

 

[kbekl]

some insurance companies like mine have a way of emailing you the cover note and you are able to print it out and tax it from that on the day

if it was me i would go 9am on the first tax it and then collect the car have done this way a couple of times

 

[219]

I had a similar difficulty when I bought the W126 last year .

The car likewise had been on SORN for about 6 months - although I had not seen the car first hand , I had seen plenty of good photographs such that I was happy it was worth going to see .

I insured the car online the day before , so that I knew it would show up on the insurance database the following day . Part of the deal was that the vendor was going to put a new MOT on it and this was done the morning I went to test drive/collect it .

Unfortunately , since I was not at that time in possession of an insurance certificate , only a receipt I had printed out myself from insuring it online the night before , I was unable to tax it before driving home .

However , with a new MOT , dated that day in my possession I was able to 'drive home from the testing station' .

In order to get the car taxed , so that I could drive 'semi-legally' , I taxed it online , knowing the disc would go to the previous owner who had agreed to forward the disc as soon as it arrived . I also printed out the receipt from the online tax application and carried this in the car for the next few days - the car WAS taxed - I would only have been guilty of 'failing to display' which would have resulted in a small fine and I took the risk on this 'technical' offence . As it turned out I got the disc before the insurance certificate arrived .

Since , by the time I got home the car was taxed/insured/MOT'd , I wasn't too worried about being flagged by an ANPR camera - on the journey home (from the test station ) with insurance receipt/new MOT/transfer slip in my possession I don't think I would have had too much trouble if pulled over for no tax .

 

[racall]

if it was me i would go 9am on the first tax it and then collect the car have done this way a couple of times

I cant do this as we will be going to dublin in the morning and wont have time to queue in the post office and might miss the flight.