I’m removing the disc and holder out of my car now and sticking the disc in the vehicle’s paperwork file for posterity. After that, I’ll sit back and see how many MMTM myths start about these changes… 
Undecided at the moment - might wait until 01/01/2015 and wrap it up in the licence paper counterpart before binning
Not fussed, leaving them in.
makes me laugh … people will be waiting with bated breath itching to rip out that little piece of paper just to be the 1st how sad 
And you could be sitting on a gold mine as they become collectable.
The oldest tax disc went for 810 pound.
I’m sure that a celebrity tax disc would be collectable
Even a disc from a HGV as cars are two a penny.
Courtesy of this is money
Remember as well if you sell a car from today the tax doesnt go with it, when the new owner applys for the V5 any remaining tax on the vehicle is refunded to the last registered keeper, bit of a baĺl ache if your car sits on a dealers forecourt for the next 6 months as you wont get whats due to you until its sold and the new owner applys for the logbook
You send off the V5 not the new owner the same as you send off the slip if you sell to a trader that’s the refund time. Full months only.
Thats what i thought as well but the woman at the dvla yesterday said a refund doesnt get issued until the new owner retaxes the car, tbh i dont think she knew what she was talking about
chaversdad:
Thats what i thought as well but the woman at the dvla yesterday said a refund doesnt get issued until the new owner retaxes the car, tbh i dont think she knew what she was talking about
lady in our local Post Office said that you get a refund from the end of the current month as long as you fill in the correct bit - there’s a section about selling to a trader, dismantler.
tallyman:
chaversdad:
Thats what i thought as well but the woman at the dvla yesterday said a refund doesnt get issued until the new owner retaxes the car, tbh i dont think she knew what she was talking aboutlady in our local Post Office said that you get a refund from the end of the current month as long as you fill in the correct bit - there’s a section about selling to a trader, dismantler.
hopefully those days are over 
mind you I have also bought and run cars from the scrapman in the past 
So, as an agency driver, how do I satisfy myself that the vehicle I have been allocated is taxed?
SD
You don’t, it’s not your problem
Got a rental truck today - tax ran out at midnight last night and the website to check the tax has been crashed for the last 2 hours I’ve been trying to check.
Although I wouldn’t be paying any fine as a driver there’s a chance a vehicle could be seized and you’re left at the roadside.
As far as I’m aware they don’t seize vehicles for having no road tax.
Most of the reports about this conflate the driver, the owner and the registered keeper, and talk about penalties for ‘drivers’ of untaxed vehicles. Can anyone point me to an official site that clearly say that the driver is not liable, only the RK?
To be fair any decent companies vehicles would be taxed. I would think the only reason they wouldn’t be is a office error. And if that was the case the company would pay any fines etc. so only really a problem if you work for a cowboy outfit lol
tachograph:
As far as I’m aware they don’t seize vehicles for having no road tax.
I’ll try and double check but I think they can and will only release once any tax due and fines are paid.
They’re not going to allow an untaxed vehicle to carry on with its journey.
Edit: they had a clamp down on untaxed cars and had a roadside crusher in operation a few years ago. Any untaxed cars were seized and crushed there and then if the driver didn’t pay.
Thousands of customers have been unable to renew their car tax online, after the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) website was swamped.
A new system comes into operation on Wednesday, after which it will no longer be necessary to display a paper tax disc in the windscreen.
But some motorists have spent up to 13 hours online, trying to get their car tax renewed.
The DVLA said the site had seen “an unprecedented volume of traffic”.
Mike Dewsbury from Manchester was one of those who struggled to pay for his car tax - known officially as Vehicle Excise Duty (VED).
“It’s a joke. I need to get to work but legally can’t because my car isn’t now taxed,” he told the BBC.
The DVLA said that an extra 30,000 people had visited the site, compared to the same day last year.
It apologised for the disruption, and advised people who need to renew their tax urgently to do so at a Post Office instead.
‘Double taxation’
Meanwhile the AA has complained that the new vehicle tax system will provide the government with extra revenue, as some cars will, in effect, be taxed twice.
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Under the new tax disc system, someone buying a car will no longer be able to benefit from any unused period on the disc.
But while buyers will need to renew the tax immediately, sellers are not allowed a refund for just part of a month.
So if a car is sold on say, the first day of the month, both buyer and seller will have paid the tax for that month.
“Someone driving a car that costs £500 a year to tax would lose £41 if they sold it at the beginning of the month,” said Edmund King, the AA’s president.
“Likewise a buyer purchasing a car mid month would have to pay Vehicle Excise Duty for the entire month,” he added.
However the DVLA said it would not bring in much additional revenue.
It said it was always the case that car-sellers were only credited for each whole month that the disc was not used.
And it added that 65% of cars bought do not include tax passed on by the previous owner.
Number-plate recognition
The RAC has previously said the new system will result in tax evasion to the tune of £167m a year.
But the DVLA dismissed that claim as nonsense.
It said it expects to save £10m a year by not having to print and distribute paper tax discs.
Those who have not paid the tax will be spotted on number-plate recognition cameras, or their details will show up online.
Other changes coming into force on 1 October include a higher national minimum wage, and new rules on people who die intestate.
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How do you go an about buying a used car now.
Ok, see car in ad, travel 100 miles or whatever and come to a deal, pay the seller and arrange insurance over the phone then and there, but what do you do about taxing it? or do you drive the thing home risking a nick and then wait for several days for the insurance details and your ownership to be uploaded so you can tax it online.
Another ■■■■ up, why can’t they leave things alone, c’mon Nige hurry up and get elected and put some common sense back into the country.
Also if they are saving 10million why hasnt tax gone down?
Oh i had to renew mine 1st sept so never bothered to put it in the window then. Might be worth more one day as the last tax disc its it bit of paper