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To report 2 untaxed cars in my close?

58 replies

FrigginPissedOff · 07/08/2011 22:10

Feel a bit nasty doing it but they are taking up 2 parking bays in our close which is literally overrun with cars/mahoosive builders vans (due to knobhead across the road having 2 big vans, a smaller van and 2 cars parked here). No one has their own parking space, there are some bays and the rest is on street parking.

One car is badly damaged and the tax ran out in March, the other is also damaged and the tax ran out in June. I have no idea who they belong to and we are having to park in the next street most days and lug baby and shopping home.

We really struggle to pay our tax when it's due but always do and on time so why should these buggers get away with it? The cars look like they have been dumped anyway as they have not been moved in that time.

Shall I?

OP posts:
LordOfTheFlies · 07/08/2011 22:58

was over 5 weeks ago should read

Pan · 07/08/2011 22:58

Wasn't suggesting the note thing was fool-proof.Smile

Dawnybabe · 07/08/2011 23:01

I've just checked my car on the DVLA website! (It's fine.)

£260 to bloody tax it now!

Definitely report them.

YANBU

gallicgirl · 07/08/2011 23:17

Report to DVLA for tax - you can check on the website if they are taxed and just not displaying a disc. Sounds like they've been abandoned though which I think is the responsibility of the local council. It will take a few weeks unfortunately to get them shifted. They have to write to DVLA for details of registered keeper, then write to owner telling them they will remove after certain time period.

Tiredmumno1 · 07/08/2011 23:20

yanbu, why should these gits get away with it, as they are probably uninsured aswell. if anyone has SORN a vehicle of the road it is only allowed to be parked on a driveway or garage, as stated on the DVLA website and directgov website.

Why should everybody else have to pay and others who just dont give a damn not pay, if you cant afford then just get it SORN off the road, thats what i say, its not fair on others, downright ignorance!!!

Tiredmumno1 · 07/08/2011 23:20

off the road - Blush

YourMIL · 07/08/2011 23:27

YANBU - a week over maybe, but six weeks and several months and the cars just dumped? What did they expect?

Maybe report them as abandoned to the council instead though? An out of date tax disc is one of the criteria they use. That way they could be towed away freeing up the spaces immediately. They may even be stolen cars.

I feel for you as we've had exactly the same problem before (we reported it in the end and a few days later it was gone.. no idea whether the owner was located or the council took it) and it drives me potty.

ImperialBlether · 07/08/2011 23:29

There are a few days' grace, though, CRS, so you shouldn't have been fined.

LordOfTheFlies · 07/08/2011 23:31

I'm sure the law has changed/ was going to change so that even if your car was on your own driveway it couldn't have an Out of Date tax?

If (as OP says) the cars are damaged then either the owner plans to repair /cannibalise for spares ,or they have been dumped

LordOfTheFlies · 07/08/2011 23:35

(Pressed post) Rats.

... them they aren't going anywhere unless a bit of a push is given( ie reported).

I'm not advocating pushing them out onto the road.But that's what we had to do with our 'squatter'. Luckily it was unlocked and had four wheels!

Pan · 07/08/2011 23:35

if it's off road, you still need a SORN statement - that is new, I think. So it's either taxed OR a SORN, not just 'don't keep or drive on a public road.

EricNorthmansMistressOfPotions · 08/08/2011 06:41

Imperialblether there is no grace period so you can be fined the day after the disc expires. The grace period applies to people who renew online, before the disc expires, to allow for the time it takes to arrive in the post.

CRS how do you know someone reported it? You could have been unlucky. We bought a van without a tax disc and had to wait for insurance papers before we could buy one, being inexperienced at this didn't realise a) you could get insurance certificate emailed and b) the DVLA wouldn't be understanding about it and we got clamped within 24 hours of parking it. I don't think anyone reported it, just bad luck.

CogitoErgoSometimes · 08/08/2011 07:55

Do report them. Aside from tax-dodging, police often find that untaxed vehicles are also uninsured and are driven/owned by people involved in other types of crime.

wonkylegs · 08/08/2011 08:19

Report it esp. as it sounds like they are abandoned. We had a rusting hulk of a transit full of rubbish abandoned outside our house. Police said they could do nothing as it still had tax to run Sad but our local councillor put us on to the fire brigade who happily removed it as it was a fire risk Grin
It was definitely left as they obviously didn't want to pay the scrap/tip fees... So no regrets as to getting it sorted as it was a stinking mess altho I wish they could have done something about whoever dumped it as it looks like they got away with it scot free

pinkyp · 08/08/2011 08:22

I was going to say yabu - thinking maybe a few weeks out of tax but yanbu - march is a long time

HipHopOpotomus · 08/08/2011 08:40

Well the DVLA knows already they are untaxed - all on computer.

YANBU I WLD report to the local council as abandoned. They will have removal procedures in place

TrillianAstra · 08/08/2011 08:46

The DVLA will know that the cars are untaxed but not where they are...

cuteboots · 08/08/2011 11:18

Do it!!

janelikesjam · 08/08/2011 11:35

Yes I would. Also, if you aren't taxed, you probably aren't insured (I think I am right in saying?). So dangerous too.

JanMorrow · 08/08/2011 11:41

Yes definately report it. They come and slap a notice on them and then tow them away I think.. they have to have been declared off road anyway.

A neighbour reported my car as abandoned once! The bloody cheek of it. I didn't use it every day but used it often enough, and it was usually in the same space (up the road from my house, only available space usually) so they obviously thought it was just sitting there.. bastards! (it WAS taxed though!).

whackamole · 08/08/2011 12:53

YANBU and I would do it to.

CRS you can renew online and over the phone now you know, I never taxed at the PO.

whackamole · 08/08/2011 12:55

Oh, they may not tow BTW - I remember the DVLA clamping about 40 cars in the street I lived in as a student about 8 years ago! Was lucky mine was taxed at the time, although coming to the end as I was going to declare it SORN at the end of the month and leave it on my parent's drive.

UKSky · 08/08/2011 15:35

If they are not on the road they do not have to have a valid tax disc if they have been SORN'd. This is whereby you notify DVLA that you will not be using the car so do not need to purchase road fund licence.

BertieBotts · 08/08/2011 15:38

If it was due in July I'd give them another week - if June or March, yes! Especially if they are in the way.

IAmTheCookieMonster · 08/08/2011 15:43

A interfering cow neighbour did this to us, our car was parked off road and was SORN.