Road Tax Petition

McBoxer · Post by **McBoxer** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 12:46 pm

Having recently had a couple of car issues, resulting in me buying and selling two cars in fairly quick succession (2 since october), I have been the victim of the new road tax laws.

As you cannot sell a vehicle with tax anymore, you are forced to tax it on the day of purchase for the complete month, and when you send the logbook of your old vehicle to Swansea for the change of owner, they refund the tax on your old vehicle - but only for unused months, so unless you manage to sell your vehicle, send the logbook in and allow the DVLA time to process it in time for month end before using your new vehicle the next month, you will always end up paying two lots of tax in that month.

I grumbled to myself, but that was the extent of my action - however I have just come across (on another forum) a link to an e-petition that someone else has set up that seems to address this very issue. Anyone interested can see what it is all about here:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70266

dave the german · Post by **dave the german** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 1:05 pm

another part of rip off britain - fortunately my last vehicle was a bike and I picked it up in a van

Blackal · Post by **Blackal** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:42 pm

Yeah - for second-hand vehicle sold each year - HMRC gets 13months' RFL instead of 12.

E-petitions are a complete waste of time, in my opinion.........

The best answer is "Assassination Politics"

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_ ... n_politics

Al

gingergeezer · Post by **gingergeezer** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 7:40 pm

Respectfully but thats balderdash. E-petitions create considerable awareness with our feckless Governments. The lobbying site 38 Degrees has a number of high profile successes through online petitioning. Plus it partially removes that complete 'turn over and take it up the rear'-type feeling that so much misguided legislation promotes. I signed this one and hope many others will. More daylight robbery.

Boxermed69 · Post by **Boxermed69** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 1:10 am

gingergeezer wrote:Respectfully but thats balderdash. E-petitions create considerable awareness with our feckless Governments. The lobbying site 38 Degrees has a number of high profile successes through online petitioning. Plus it partially removes that complete 'turn over and take it up the rear'-type feeling that so much misguided legislation promotes. I signed this one and hope many others will. More daylight robbery.

What he said.

Mike

big rob · Post by **big rob** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:45 am

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Petition signed.

We have recently been ROBBED by DVLA

It's illegal to insure a vehicle twice how can it be legal to tax same vehicle twice?

All these new ultra low emission vehicles pay little or NO road tax, this is our governments way of stealing from the rest of us to help make-up the loss of income for said vehicles.

Rob & Gail

Arrivisto · Post by **Arrivisto** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:56 pm

"It's illegal to insure a vehicle twice ".

No it's not. You can insure anything several times. But as insurance is a means to indemnify oneself against loss, one may claim only up to the loss of the market or agreed value. So double insurance is double the premium for no extra benefit. If you claim for more than that, it is fraud. If you are worried about the creditworthiness of an insurer, avoid them.

By the way the new Insurance Act 2015 has just come into force.