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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I have now seen him driving the car with out of date tax 4 times now.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:
TiggyCBE · 02/03/2014 00:11

I didn't think insurance covered cars being driven on the public roads with no tax. I was under the impression that all untaxed cars were therefore also uninsured.

Nicknacky · 02/03/2014 00:12

No tiggy, that is generally not the case.

honeybunny14 · 02/03/2014 00:13

Well said thecook no one does like a grass

Adeleh · 02/03/2014 00:13

I think that was a pretty mean thing to do. So he's late renewing his tax disc - are you sure he's not late because he's got a lot going on in his life like MrsTatum? Maybe he's found out he's ill. Or his wife is. I was once shopped for having no insurance in Ireland where you have an insurance disc. I was able to prove I did have insurance - just hadn't realised you have to display the disc. Still wonder which neighbour did it, and why they couldn't have just asked me or pointed out you need a disc. It's really unpleasant to be shopped.

TiggyCBE · 02/03/2014 00:19

I need to watch more "Police, Camera, Check Insurance Details" type shows.

perfectstorm · 02/03/2014 00:19

Well, in fairness that isn't true. Tax evasion affects all of us. It's no more a victimless crime than benefit fraud is.

Having said that, I'd not be comfortable with reporting it. But I'm not sure that's a logical position.

thecook · 02/03/2014 00:25

OP - drip, drip, drip

Took you a while to admit the real reason you reported your neighbour.

I envy you OP. To have so liitle worries in your life that you find the time to report your neighbour.

GET A LIFE.

You are a grass.

Adeleh · 02/03/2014 00:26

That's true, perfect, but you're not going to get away with it for long with mobile cameras etc, and the tax is backdated to when you last paid it. Also when road tax is about £100 a year, the impact is much smaller than benefit fraud and much much smaller than tax evasion. It's really not worth souring the neighbourhood atmosphere over.

olympicvibes · 02/03/2014 00:27

We pity our neighbour (who has a reputation now) as someone who literally has nothing better to do. And secretly do a victory laugh when he blanks us

Nowt like the moral high ground.

Adeleh · 02/03/2014 00:28

I mean income tax evasion, not road tax obvs.

perfectstorm · 02/03/2014 00:38

Oh, I wouldn't report. Too lazy to even notice anyone's tax discs, tbh! But I don't think it's morally wrong to do it, either.

pastaNcheese · 02/03/2014 04:00

OP, I posted earlier but you've ignored my question.

I agree that people who drive without tax are being somewhat unreasonable. However, that's their own choice to make and risk to take.

I think it is extremely dickish of you to report them. I still can't fathom why you would care enough to want to report it. You must be utterly eaten up by bitterness.

My burning question remains - how did you know??? You must have gone up and inspected their tax disc. Why oh earth would you have done this?

Ridiculous, pathetic and petty behaviour.

For this alone you are being unreasonable.

(I can only assume this is exactly what you've done which is why you ignored my original post)

ElleBellyBeeblebrox · 02/03/2014 04:26

No tax disc doesn't affect insurance. I can't see why you've made this your business, as it has sod all to do with you! If you really gave a shit you'd have just reminded him, you sound like a snidey busybody.

Pumpkinpositive · 02/03/2014 05:29

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 OP didn't say she actively dislikes him. She said she doesn't "particularly" like him (and doesn't despise him). Gawd knows what she'd do to someone she does dislike.

If her off handed, dismissive routine towards posters on this thread is anything to go by, reporting the neighbour is hardly surprising.

Poppy67 · 02/03/2014 08:04

To those who think reporting a criminal offence is wrong, think about social responsibility.

Jengnr · 02/03/2014 08:13

I can't imagine living in a world where you'd even notice someone's tax disc, let alone have the time or inclination to actually report it.

WorrySighWorrySigh · 02/03/2014 08:15

I dobbed my neighbour's car in because her whiney-arsed 'poor me' attitude combined with her inability to park in a neighbourly fashion had got on my nerves for years. When she also failed to keep up to date with the tax on the car I was more than happy to report it.

No doubt my neighbour had justified her non-payment of tax to herself on the grounds that her life was harder than everyone else's.

IME how people behave in one part of their life is how they behave in the other parts. People who fail to keep up with the obligations in one part of their life are generally doing the same in other parts.

Joysmum · 02/03/2014 08:21

IME how people behave in one part of their life is how they behave in the other parts. People who fail to keep up with the obligations in one part of their life are generally doing the same in other parts.

Exactly.

Whatever happened to civic responsibility?

I think it's fair to wonder if he can ignore the law on that, what else is he ignoring? Insurance? MOT?

Why shouldn't he get caught and face the consequences?

Original poster
RinkyDinkyDoo · 02/03/2014 08:26

For those who ask how I noticed, well I walk up and down my road twice a day, his car is there parked on the pavement(we have wide pavements) and I've just taxed mine, so noticed it was a different colour.
There is also a car parked up a drive, facing towards the pavement, that is covered in moss and weeds, that tax disc ran out in 2009.

OP posts:
nennypops · 02/03/2014 08:26

To those who think reporting a criminal offence is wrong, think about social responsibility.

But isn't it more socially responsible to remind the neighbour? That way he pays the tax and you save the state the costs of prosecuting. If, as OP says, the neighbour isn't approachable, leave a note on the car.

Poppy67 · 02/03/2014 08:34

Someone who can't be arsed to get tax won't give a shit if their neighbour highlights this.

Poppy67 · 02/03/2014 08:35

It expired January ..... It's now March.

Why give the benefit of the doubt to this person? I wouldn't.

RalphLaurenLover · 02/03/2014 08:36

Sounds like the play ground "your a busybody" "your a grass"

Why should she turn a blind eye to somebody who doesn't want to follow the rules just like everyone else! With all those reminders and the likelihood of him knowing it ran out I wouldn't.

I notice my tax disc everyday due to the fact my son sits in the rear passenger side so I walk past it at least 4 times when I go out and mine runs out 31/08/2014.

Personally OP ynbu

mousmous · 02/03/2014 08:41

yanbu

MistressDeeCee · 02/03/2014 09:15

OP you probably have a history with neighbour which is why you reported him, and now you want a thread full of people agreeing with you so you can also take glee from that. Up to you if that makes you feel good..I wouldnt even notice if my neighbour's tax disc was out of date..the discs are not exactly big, are they - you must have made a conscious effort to go up close to vehicle and squint at it. Do you not have much going on in your life? He wouldn't have gotten away with it anyway methinks, due to SORN. Anyway its done now, he'll get a fine etc I suppose...inconvenient for him but he'll live. So you can then get on with looking for something else to sneakily upset him with. I 'get' that he was committing a crime but all this reporting as if you're a policeman then looking to take the moral high ground when clearly vindictiveness is behind it, makes me Hmm