That sounds spectacularly awkward, so can you buy it online in advance or the dealer taxi it for you? Or is your 1st action upon taking delivery of a new car to get out of it and walk to a post office?
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That sounds spectacularly awkward, so can you buy it online in advance or the dealer taxi it for you? Or is your 1st action upon taking delivery of a new car to get out of it and walk to a post office?
Lots of white wine and the wife's experimental baking.....:doh:
I think it's quite sad. Mrs. Beard taxed her 156 at the end of August for the princely sum of £156 (there's symmetry for you).....for 6 months. At least now we get a tatty piece of paper for the money, but soon that will go so we'll just be left with only 245,000 miles of roads. Interestingly* minor roads make up 87% of that total, motorways 1% and 'A' roads 12%, although motorways and 'A' roads carry 65% of road traffic. I initially thought that 1% seemed a very small amount of road when you consider how far you can travel on them, but, if you think about it, how many miles of residential roads are there in the average town or borough?Bought my last ever paper tax disc today
I checked ours and it seems that Tameside in Greater Manchester has 478 miles and the council spent £1.4 million maintaining them. But when you look at the miles travelled by vehicles it works out at 712,000,000 vehicle miles. Which is a lot.
As (I think) we all know by now, the "Car Tax" (variously Road Fund Licence, Vehicle Excise Duty/Licence) became a General Tax a long time ago and since then is just absorbed into that great big black hole now known as H. M. Revenue and Customs to be re-distributed as the government of the day sees fit, with much of it coming back to your local authority as subsidies.
What makes me grumpy is that successive governments have just complicated matters, in as much as Mrs. Beard's 156 2.0TS Veloce was new in March 2001 therefore it came into the new higher tax band whereas prior to this the tax was split into two groups and in that higher band is a car used by someone I know at work. He has a 2001 Jag XJR with a 4.0 litre Supercharged V8. Anyone like to hazard a guess at the Duty for that one? Yup, exactly the same as the 2.0 litre Alfa.
Mind you, could be worse, I was looking at a Mercedes SLR a few weeks ago and the tax disc stated over £1,000! £1,000? Mere Bagatelle my dear sir.
* Interesting only if your life isn't.
Don't forget that one of the offences connected with the VEL is "Failure to Display" which will obviously disappear. The inference is that if you buy a car, for example from an auction, and it wasn't taxed you couldn't (legally) drive it away, so unless you had access to Trade Plates it would have to stay where it was until you had a disc. I've never tried it so I'm unsure as to whether you could go to a Post Office with the partial V5 and tax it or whether you'd have to wait until the new one in your name arrived, which could take some time. This way you won't have to wait for a new disc to come through the post.
When buying new, you've always had to pay for the first year's VED as part of the OTR charges.
That would have been less than 12 months old, so in the first year tax band, which is a lot steeper for higher emission vehicles than for the rest of their lives. Although still about the £500 mark annually.
Noticed that my car is covered in paint spots from when I painted the outside of the house.. :-/
No wind when painting and used a brush & roller.
I assume the paint came from using the roller but not sure how it travelled from the car port, along the driveway and onto the road where the car was parked... Completely covered...
Clay mitt seems to get rid of them but its slow progress...
No wind when painting and used a brush & roller.
I assume the paint came from using the roller but not sure how it travelled from the car port, along the driveway and onto the road where the car was parked... Completely covered...
Clay mitt seems to get rid of them but its slow progress...
M25 it's 1am and still a flipping car park!
My mum's suzuki jimny costs the same to tax as my old four litre range rover did..
Can I still display my old tax disc even if I have bought "new" tax for the following 12 months? I'm kind of attached to them?
Can I still display my old tax disc even if I have bought "new" tax for the following 12 months? I'm kind of attached to them?
You should be displaying its Midlands Italia replacement...! :nono:
It's already being displayed
Yes: but we have cards that fit people's tax-disc holders, too!
Yes: but we have cards that fit people's tax-disc holders, too!
Oh really. Can you put me down for 2 tax disk replacements please. One for Vicky and one for the milk float
This is retribution for the fact you drive a milk float on the M25. Remember the highway code no battery powered vehicles allowed on a motorway
This is retribution for the fact you drive a milk float on the M25. Remember the highway code no battery powered vehicles allowed on a motorway
If we were in the milk float I think it wouldn't have been so bad, as no fuel used, but was passenger in Sisters Stilo so the LPG was burning away
If we were in the milk float I think it wouldn't have been so bad, as no fuel used, but was passenger in Sisters Stilo so the LPG was burning away
Looks like you owe your sister then, retribution has a long arm :nerner:
Being treated like a 9th class citizen by quite a few people in Scotland for having the wrong accent. Cant decide if to vote Yes so they wont have an excuse to treat me like dirt or No as f*** you.
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Vote yes, then we English won't have to put up with a Labour government ever again.
vote no because the tories are plotting big revenge tricks if yes wins
