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Original poster

To just drive the bloody car? Tax related!

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IroningThrone · 03/01/2024 13:04

Bought a new to me car yesterday - it's perfect and everything I want but it's under a disabled tax exemption and I've spent all day trying to get it removed so I can tax it myself!

The DVLA website told me to ring them. I did. The automated line was zero help so I googled. I have to go to a post office. Okay. The one down the street from me does car tax. Walked there in the rain. They can't help and I have to ring the DVLA. The car is showing as taxed online and I have an appointment that I need to attend in the morning - WIBU to just drive the bloody car? I don't have anyone who can give me a lift and public transport can't get me there!

OP posts:
Lazyladydaisy · 03/01/2024 13:47

I used to work for the DVLA - the post office can tax it for you if you have the new keepers slip (green bit) with a completed v62 and a v10 form. There is no fee for the log book if you have the green slip.
If you don't have it you won't be able to do anything until you have a log book in your name.
The new tax rules mean that the tax is only valid for the person who taxes it - so if the previous keeper has done their bit right and sent off the docs to the DVLA the vehicle won't be taxed as soon as the names change.
Obviously it's up to you if you decide to drive the car, but the disabled tax exemption you are not entitled to will more than likely invalidate your insurance. So will having no tax at all!

Original poster
IroningThrone · 03/01/2024 15:12

Lazyladydaisy · 03/01/2024 13:47

I used to work for the DVLA - the post office can tax it for you if you have the new keepers slip (green bit) with a completed v62 and a v10 form. There is no fee for the log book if you have the green slip.
If you don't have it you won't be able to do anything until you have a log book in your name.
The new tax rules mean that the tax is only valid for the person who taxes it - so if the previous keeper has done their bit right and sent off the docs to the DVLA the vehicle won't be taxed as soon as the names change.
Obviously it's up to you if you decide to drive the car, but the disabled tax exemption you are not entitled to will more than likely invalidate your insurance. So will having no tax at all!

Thanks! I'll go back and ask about those forms - the person I spoke to today really wasn't helpful!

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twistandfart · 03/01/2024 15:38

muddyford · 03/01/2024 13:07

Mine had the same exemption. I had to go to the post office with the salesman to tax it. No problem since.

This is what we had to do when we bought ours. It was a faff but sorted pretty quickly.

muddyford · 03/01/2024 16:10

Hadalifeonce · 03/01/2024 13:07

If you are saying the car is taxed, why would you not drive it?
When I recently bought a car, I had to tax it at the showroom.

Because it's been taxed by the previous owner who had a disablement exemption. OP hasn't got this exemption so has to tax it for herself before she drives it on a public road.

PlurplePeopleEater · 03/01/2024 16:20

I would try a different Post Office. I was absolutely skint a few years ago and couldn't tax my car until payday- I didn't drive it but lived in a flat and had to park it on the street.

I came out one day to a big fuck off sticker on the windshield and driver's side window and it had been clamped. It cost me about £200 to have the clamp removed plus the cost of taxing it, as well as the embarrassment of having that sitting out the front of my house for three days until payday.

I'd say if it's still showing as taxed online you'd be ok but to those posters saying they have driven about for months without tax, you were lucky and the OP might not have the same luck!

Fairysteps11 · 03/01/2024 16:25

If you have a new keeper slip v5c/part 2 or a v5c, you should be able to tax at a post office. They do have the option to change the tax class. You may need the previous owners postcode.

If you have none of these, post offices can't tax. If the v5c has been sent in to dvla, it will be taxed until the dvla deal with the change of ownership.

loudbatperson · 03/01/2024 16:30

Our pay car had this same thing, husband went with the dealer to the post office on the day we bought it and it was sorted then and there.

Did the dealer not offer to sort it before you took ownership?

Original poster
IroningThrone · 03/01/2024 16:34

Fairysteps11 · 03/01/2024 16:25

If you have a new keeper slip v5c/part 2 or a v5c, you should be able to tax at a post office. They do have the option to change the tax class. You may need the previous owners postcode.

If you have none of these, post offices can't tax. If the v5c has been sent in to dvla, it will be taxed until the dvla deal with the change of ownership.

I took the slip to the post office and was told they couldn't help me and that I needed to ring the DVLA!

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Fairysteps11 · 03/01/2024 17:35

Did they try putting the previous owners postcode in? Or just yours?
It is possible (as long as DVLA allows it through the system), by putting the previous owners address in...
Depends on how much they want to help you...
I hope you sort it soon

BranchGold · 03/01/2024 17:49

Do you know if the previous keeper was the first person to own the vehicle? It can sometimes happen that when a vehicle is first registered and happens to go into the disabled tax class at that time, a couple of the entry fields get deleted out, that are required when you want to change the vehicle to the correct tax class. It will not go through at any post office if that’s the case and will need to be manually inputted at the DVLA.

your best bet is to wait for the log book to come back to you with your details, fill in a V10 form with a cheque/postal order for the correct rate of vehicle tax.

Fieldofbrokenpromises · 03/01/2024 17:54

the disabled tax exemption you are not entitled to will more than likely invalidate your insurance. So will having no tax at all!
No it won't

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