Does anyone know how long it takes for a road tax refund to get through?

[Ponders]

I part exchanged my old car at the beginning of Nov & forget to take the old tax disc to send to Swansea for a refund (6 months, £90, worth having!). By the time I got home & rang the dealer (60 miles away) they had already removed it, filled in the form for me, & posted it

DVLA say allow 6 weeks before chasing, so maybe it does take that long, but I'm not 100% sure that the dealer was sufficiently literate to copy out my name & address exactly as it appeared on the reg document & the claim form says if you don't you don't get the refund & you don't get the tax disc back either.

Anybody know?

I've just had a refund after writing off my car and it did take about 6 weeks.

oh thanks, Salhal, that is reassuring

Mine took aboy 3 months after my car was stolen. Mind you that was after 4 attempts just to get hold of the refund form

oh I had the form already Crispy, from the PO - filled in & ready to go - I just forgot to get the disc out of the car...

(as well as 4 euro coins which were in one of the door storage slots for some reason)
(& a leather steering wheel cover)
(& probably a few other bits & pieces too! I "emptied" the car before going to collect the new one, but a) forgot the driver's part of the car & b) should have made a list of what to do when I got there!)

You apparently need a different form if it has been stolen which are only available from DVLA. But not via their automated phone service. Which is their only service . In the end i had to fill in a customer complaint form, just to request one

Hope yours comes soon , although i don't fancy your chances of speaking to anyone to chase it up......

Funny you should post about this - I just got a road tax rebate through today - took 3 weeks.

oh that sounds like a PITA, Crispy - glad you managed to get it sorted in the end but how annoying & stupid that you couldn't get it any other way!

thanks, dolcegusto - my 3 weeks will be up around the middle of next week but apparently I can't chase it until another 3 weeks after that (so I hope I don't need to...they said they'd post my steering wheel cover back to me but they haven't so I'm not filled with confidence!)

The dealer may have claimed it in his own name and address. Watch out for an argument with the dealer.

he couldn't do that, WV - the claim form has to match the details on the reg document (name & address) & the car has been reregistered to him as a dealer (as a temporary reg, not as an owner). Anyway they seemed straight enough (just a bit dim!)

If it hasn't come by the middle of the week I'll ring the dealer again & chase the wheel cover at the same time...

Yay, it arrived today - 3 weeks exactly I think (not sure if it was posted out on a Mon or a Tue)

now shall I bother chasing the steering wheel cover...?