Originally Posted by
rs007
Exactly this.
The DVLA now get DOUBLE tax for the month any time a car is bought or sold, assuming the new keeper doesn't pick it up on a low loader and strictly follows the guidelines.
On one hand I'm surprised there hasn't been a bigger kick off about this as its blatant robbery - but on the other, I'm not surprised at all because folks are that disenfranchised now that they can't even be bothered fighting scams like this.
i dont know if anybody has been to court about this yet as if i was caught/prosecuted for using a car which somebody had already paid road tax for that month i would argue no case as the revenue was already collected for the vehicle that month so its simple "double taxation"-it only takes one judgement to go against them and it would create havoc -i would be surprised if they took a case to court for this very reason