Question on Buying Car Tax

[snowdragon]

I hope someone can inform me on car tax please

 

I had to buy another car yesterday

 

but if has no tax,

 

I contacted my insurance company to change over the details and asked how long the new insurance would take to come

as I needed it to tax the car,

 

only to be told you now no longer need to take insurance to the post office to tax it,

 

is this right?

 

TIA

[ashmk]

Buy it online, it's knows if you are insured. https://www.gov.uk/tax-disc

 

As for directly answering your question I don't know because I always do it online rather than the counter. Sorry.

[snowdragon]

so do I normally but as the car has no tax doubt can do it online, took me 4 hours just to get through to insure it!

[Consumer dude]

so do I normally but as the car has no tax doubt can do it online, took me 4 hours just to get through to insure it!

 

Go to DVLC site, attempt to buy tax online and it should confirm if car is insured and has MOT (if applicable)..

[Grotesque]

Yep.

[snowdragon]

thanks, need the tax asap but will give it a go but DVLA would not have received the log book yet so would not know I am now the owner

[nohope]

I was going to say that.

 

If you tax it now the new disc will go to the last owner,

 

also if you get tax online after the current disc has run out then your still not covered if you get stopped.

 

Ask your insurance company to email your policy to you so you can print it out and take to the post office.

 

As far as I know you still need insurance docs at the post office to get your tax disc.

[snowdragon]

that is what I thought, I do not have a printer. It was my insurance company that said from last month you no longer needed to take your insurance documents to tax a car as you are automatically put on a data base soon as you get insurance

[chrissm19]

Although you can tax your car online, it is still an offence for not displaying. Not that I have ever been concerned about that mind.

[Raykay]

Although you can tax your car online, it is still an offence for not displaying. Not that I have ever been concerned about that mind.

 

 

If a new owner takes out a licence on-line or by post, there are 14 days grace for the offence of failing to display.

[blackknight]

You do not need proof of insurance to tax cars at post office as they check on line now.

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-2520649/Need-insurance-certificate-buy-car-tax-axed.html