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AIBU?

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Original poster

to report an untaxed car?

67 replies

hatesponge · 01/06/2010 22:18

Would you report an untaxed car (being driven about, not off-road) whatever the circumstances?

My Ex's road tax ran out a month ago. Our DC have pointed it out to him since then and his response was that he hadn't got round to it

He has done so much awful stuff to me over the years that I am sorely tempted to report him. However, part of me thinks I shouldn't....bad karma & all that.

Am sure IANBU simply to consider it, but AIBU to do it?

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MrsRhettButler · 01/06/2010 22:20

if he really has done awful stuff to you then i would say do it do it do it!! but i'm evil.

plantsitter · 01/06/2010 22:21

I wouldn't bother as They Know Everything anyway - I should think he'll get a warning/fine through the post shortly...

yamashita · 01/06/2010 22:22

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ClaireDeLoon · 01/06/2010 22:22

I would simply because it's also possibly uninsured and without a valid MOT. But it being your ex complicates it. Then again if it's not insured and out of MOT would you want your DC's in it? Do you think it's just the tax?

Meglet · 01/06/2010 22:23

Oh my goodness yes I would report it. Just hope he is insured too. No excuse for not doing it.

ClaireDeLoon · 01/06/2010 22:23

yamashita that's out of order

SixtyFootDoll · 01/06/2010 22:24

It will come up on the database anyway

yamashita · 01/06/2010 22:24

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PrammyMammy · 01/06/2010 22:26

I used to live in a flat in a bit of a rough area. One day we heard a loud engine and there were flashing lights so i looked out, it was a crane thing lifting a car, so i lifted my ds up to watch it, he was/still is amazed by cars/trucks/diggers so he loved it. 5 minutes later, the person in the next flat was bawling and wearing in my window, so i went out to speak and they accused me of reporting the car because i was laughing at the window. Said he had a knife and a chain if i called the police, and then his wife was threatning me from the window. I don't drive, and wouldn't know an untaxed car. I was pg, actually scared to live there, and eventually moved.
SO because of the trouble i know it can cause.. i say yabu.

parakeet · 01/06/2010 22:27

I definitely would.

It might well be on their database, but by the time they get round to checking up on him, he might have taxed it. Then he wouldn't get nicked, would he? And surely, that is the whole point?

myredquattro · 01/06/2010 22:28

Yamashita, I have reported your post as being a nasty personal attack.
Disagree by all means but no need for that.

PrammyMammy · 01/06/2010 22:28

he was swearing in my window.

jkklpu · 01/06/2010 22:29

Can you tell your ex that dcs won't be visiting him until it's taxed?

gerontius · 01/06/2010 22:29

Isn't it just tax evasion? Which you should report regardless of whether you don't like your ex? That fact that he's been awful to you means you should definitely do it.

ClaireDeLoon · 01/06/2010 22:29

Why is it vindictive? Why should everyone else pay tax and not OP's ex?

ANd why do you think calling the OP names is OK? Your post WAS out of order.

yamashita · 01/06/2010 22:29

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chippy47 · 01/06/2010 22:30

Without tax the insurance is invalid so he is posing a risk to anyone he may be involved in an accident with. Report him.

Yamashita -not sure what your problem is.

myredquattro · 01/06/2010 22:31

at someone telling me to get a life when they post ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz across the page.

bubbles4 · 01/06/2010 22:32

yamashita your a right little charmer arent you.

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hatesponge · 01/06/2010 22:33

Yamashita I did think that was a bit strong even for AIBU...however as I'm not a vindictive person I'll turn the other cheek.

I know the car is insured and MOT'd til the end of this month so that's not a concern (yet). What's annoying me most is that he KNOWS it needs doing, yet he can't be arsed.

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cornsilkcottagecheese · 01/06/2010 22:33

yamashita you seem to have transposed the title of the site you were looking for. This is mumsnet.

Tryharder · 01/06/2010 22:35

[shrugs]

Why not? My colleague has a friend who was badly injured by someone driving an untaxed and therefore uninsured vehicle. The friend now needs 24 hour care and is in a wheelchair. The driver got a tap on the wrist; I'm sure he didn't mean to do it but that's not the point. Had he been insured, the injured man would have been able to claim compensation from that person's insurers for the fact that his life is basically ruined, loss of earnings, cost of care, having to have house adapted etc etc etc. As it is, tough.

Driving an uninsured, untaxed vehicle is not a victimless crime as people seem to think. At the very least, it means that road tax and insurance goes up for the rest of us who can be bothered to pay.

I'm also of the opinion that untaxed drivers are probably more likely to fail to stop at the scene of an accident, commit hit and run offences etc. I'm actually a bit bemused that some of you on here seem to think that the OP would be U for reporting him but would you be saying that if it were you or your children that this man mowed down.

Report him.

LordVolAuVent · 01/06/2010 22:36

Normally I'd say mind your own business.

But if he's/has been a proper cunt then go for it.

Just a query though, will he suspect it was you and what will he do if so?

sweetchillidip · 01/06/2010 22:37

I would ignore her, she only started posting by that name today!

myredquattro · 01/06/2010 22:38

hatesponge, he won't be insured if he isn't taxed even if he's paid for the insurance.