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Original poster

To have reported neighbour

310 replies

RinkyDinkyDoo · 01/03/2014 19:16

Tax disc on his second car, they have a main car and a works van, ran out at the end of January.
This car is mainly parked on the road, as is the van and other car, they have room on their drive for one car,but don't use it.
I have now seen him driving the car with out of date tax 4 times now. I reported him on the DVLA website this afternoon.

OP posts:
SirChenjin · 01/03/2014 22:50

You've got to wonder if someone who lets their tax disc lapse that often (iirc the OP said it wasn't a one off...or maybe I imagined that?!!) is as good at making sure their insurance is up to date as they should be

Poppy67 · 01/03/2014 22:51

Having no road tax is a criminal offence.

olympicvibes · 01/03/2014 22:51

Yes Sirchen it was so obviously situation is different in that way but to know a neighbour has been sneaky like that is shit, and the backstory is similar-parking issues. I get on really well with everyone else, and the twat neighbour only hassled people who rented. Now he won't look at us!

Once when my 4 month old baby had been very sick and we all had norovirus, we had no choice but to ask my parents to have the baby at theirs for a few days. First time away from baby, was really hard for me. When I was well enough to collect and bring my baby home I was getting out of the car, it was dark, and twat neighbour appeared, to have a go at me about parking. Nothing illegal, just mouthing off. That was one time. Another time he wrote a note on my mum's car saying she was selfish and unreasonable for parking where she did. She can't walk without crutches and it was her visit to see grandchild. The problem is it became stressful and I felt harassed. SO yes I have a chip on my shoulder about this kind of thing, because I was going through a terrible time and it was absolutely the very last thing I needed. So I feel angry that people think it is ok, when you should just be honest, say yeah I have a grudge about something with them and I reported them because I wanted to get them in the shit.

SirChenjin · 01/03/2014 22:51

No, I didn't make that up - it was in the OP

SirChenjin · 01/03/2014 22:52

Olympic - where had you and your mum parked that upset them so much?!! Grin

Nnnnnnn · 01/03/2014 22:53

I don't think anyone disagrees that anyone without tax should be fined. Indeed I hope he gets a hefty fine if he does in fact have no tax. I think the issue is the holier than thou/pointless opening post really that has got people wound up (and the fact that lots of people have incorrectly stated that he'd be driving uninsured).

Had the OP said, "AIBU to be secretly pleased that I've grassed my twattish neighbour up to the DVLA", then the responses would have been very different.

Bearbehind · 01/03/2014 22:54

Jeez, maybe you should report him the HMRC for tax evasion and for benefit fraud and claiming reduced council tax and anything else you think the poor fucker might not be competent enough to have done correctly just because he has allowed the tax on one of his
3 vehicles to expire Hmm

olympicvibes · 01/03/2014 22:55

Opposite their house!! ( perfectly legal)

Bearbehind · 01/03/2014 22:55

Having no road tax is a criminal offence.

Yep, and the only person it affects is the offender.

BumPotato · 01/03/2014 22:59

I thoroughly despised my last set of neighbours and there were parking wars. I wouldn't have lowered myself to reporting a tax disc though. For all you know NDN has paid the tax but not remembered to change the disc over.

Original poster
RinkyDinkyDoo · 01/03/2014 23:01

Nnnnnnnn, if I'd have written that, then smug,gloating, nasty and vindictive would be totally appropriate.
I did it, do you think I was unreasonable or not? Yes or no?

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Bearbehind · 01/03/2014 23:01

No, I didn't make that up - it was in the OP

No- she didn't say it he had frequently allowed the tax to lapse, she said she'd seen him drive the car on 4 occasions since it lapsed- big difference.

Original poster
RinkyDinkyDoo · 01/03/2014 23:04

I don't despise him, don't particularly like him, if it was other neighbours, then no, probably wouldn't report them, can't approach him, he is illegally ( to the best of my my knowledge) parking and driving on roads, so I did what I did.

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olympicvibes · 01/03/2014 23:09

Right, so finally we get to the point where you admit the decision to report has nothing to do with your morals on the importance of being a good upstanding law abiding citizen, but a personal thing against a neighbour you feel you can't approach. Well done, gold star!!

SirChenjin · 01/03/2014 23:20

I would do that too - as I said previously. I neither want nor need a gold star, the satisfaction of shopping my twat of a neighbour would be enough.

Original poster
RinkyDinkyDoo · 01/03/2014 23:25

Olympic, no gold star required here.

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thecook · 01/03/2014 23:31

Wow OP

Nobody likes a grass.

SirChenjin · 01/03/2014 23:34

Not true - the DVLA loves a grass.

galletti · 01/03/2014 23:34

I don't think OP is being nasty at all. The law says that you should have road tax from a certain time of year to the next. Reminders are sent. Yes they can be forgotten - I have been guilty of this, and then panic ensues and a tax disc is bought in time for renewal or a couple of days later. OP says neighbour's tax disc ran out at end of January. Good for you OP.

Terrortree · 01/03/2014 23:36

Thank you Rinky. I am with you. They are right, you don't need a gold star. You just need to be good enough.

Like I said, had the twats who stole my property been a popular fella, I would never have been reunited with it. Thank the lord, they aren't. So I have got my property back.

If you make a living out of taking more than you give, remember those of us who give, my take out of your living.

BuzzardBird · 01/03/2014 23:43

Ah see, my reminder was sent to the wrong address so I was driving around for 6 weeks before I noticed I had no tax. This was of no benefit as once I saw it the tax continued from where the last one left off.

Also, once I drove around for a month without remembering to put my new disc on display and my neighbour helpfully pointed it out to me and was very disappointed when I produced the new disc...silly arse. Him, that is.

Nnnnnnn · 01/03/2014 23:43

To be honest, had your opening post just said you'd grassed up your neighbour to the DVLA because you didn't like him, I'd have just immediately lost interest and moved on to the next thread.

But it took 190 posts and lots of updates to get there.

Nicknacky · 01/03/2014 23:53

Terror, his tax status doesn't change your inconvenience.

ThefutureMrsTatum · 02/03/2014 00:02

Yabu. Someone did this to us last year. Had 2 cars, one failed it's MOT very badly, it failed just before tax ran out. We had 800 worth of work done on it to get it back on the road again. Inbetween the failure of MOT and the extensive work being done it was parked on the road for 2 weeks outside our house (we had to sell a few things to raise the money for the bill), in the meantime a "lovely" neighbour reported it to the DVLA and we got an 80 fine a week after forking out all the money for repairs, we'd even sold the dining room table! It was pretty much the final nail in the coffin for an absolutely crappy horrible year and caused no end of stress. So even though we had since taxed it, we still had to pay the fine. I was 8 months pregnant at the time and we handed our notice in on our house and moved it upset me that much. We were never any bother to our neighbours and couldn't understand why anyone would be so downright nasty. You should have reminded them or ignored.

Custardo · 02/03/2014 00:08

dear op,

if my neighbour was a twat, i would report him

if not, i wouldn't bother, nor care