Quick query about the new VED rules

[Brandane]

The automatic sorting of refunding of the whole months of unused VED is handy. That makes things easier for a change instead of more complicated. The government must be slipping

Or does it?
From my understanding of the new regs, you will end up paying an extra months VED when you change cars unless you do it on the right dates of the month, and go car-less for at least one day.
If you were to take your old car in to a dealer on, say, 31st October, and drive off in your new car, then you would be paying VED for October on both cars (you have to pay the whole of October on the new car even if you use it for only the last day of the month).
Do the deal on 1st November and you would only get your VED refunded on the old car from 1st December (as they only refund complete months and you used it on 1st November).

What you need to do is sell the old car on 31st October, and buy the new one on 1st November.

 

[Saluki]

Or does it?
From my understanding of the new regs, you will end up paying an extra months VED when you change cars unless you do it on the right dates of the month, and go car-less for at least one day.
If you were to take your old car in to a dealer on, say, 31st October, and drive off in your new car, then you would be paying VED for October on both cars (you have to pay the whole of October on the new car even if you use it for only the last day of the month).
Do the deal on 1st November and you would only get your VED refunded on the old car from 1st December (as they only refund complete months and you used it on 1st November).

What you need to do is sell the old car on 31st October, and buy the new one on 1st November.

That's what we thought but doubt that it works that well. I should think that DVLA will take the 'whole month' of unused VED from when they get notification rather than the date of transfer. The deal on the car is good enough to absorb a months VED as long as the dealer keeps his promise to change the CD player and get the bloomin' nursery rhyme CD out

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Or does it?
From my understanding of the new regs, you will end up paying an extra months VED when you change cars unless you do it on the right dates of the month, and go car-less for at least one day.
If you were to take your old car in to a dealer on, say, 31st October, and drive off in your new car, then you would be paying VED for October on both cars (you have to pay the whole of October on the new car even if you use it for only the last day of the month).
Do the deal on 1st November and you would only get your VED refunded on the old car from 1st December (as they only refund complete months and you used it on 1st November).

What you need to do is sell the old car on 31st October, and buy the new one on 1st November.

That's always been the case with VED refunds. It didn't apply to private sales because the seller would leave the tax disc on the vehicle as part of the deal, but whenever I've traded in to a dealer (Almost all of my car purchases) I always removed the disc and got the refund on the unused months.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Drove 10 miles home from Beverley yesterday (11/10/14) almost 2 weeks since the disc display requirement was removed, and not ONE of the 150+ cars passing in the opposite direction had removed theirs....?

Clearly indicative that the vast majority of drivers make up a clueless motoring public, whose current affairs knowledge is ZERO when it comes to motoring information/rules/changes.

Retest the lot of them.

Edit - mine was removed on the morning of 01/10/14....

 

[Piemaster]

Mines still got the disc in the screen. Not because I don't know I now don't need it, but because I've not bothered my arse to remove it. Theres probably a lot of people the same out there.

As for the losing a months worth of tax when changing a car, even in some of the higher brackets it will amount to around £20. Not a great deal set against the cost of changing a car and not something I'd fret over.
Of course it could be done at end of month as @Brandane suggests and be car free for a day. But...OMG!! no car for a whole day!! How will the motoring public survive! It's a complete disgrace! Vote UKIP (or something).

 

[subaqua]

yeah wifeys car which is zero rated anyway still has last years disc in it . can't be bothered to take it out even though i know the law has changed.

 

[GrasB]

2 tax discs were pulled off the cars on 1st Oct. Having those extra few degrees of visibility on 2 of them is really useful. On the 3rd car it stayed there until this morning when I swapped over to the full height windscreen.

 

[Paulus]

The tax disc on my motorbike was nicked on 01-10-14

 

[young Ed]

Ah yes, but how many times has it been recycled?

the landrover? zilch! as i won't be getting a series one it will be made of new aluminum rather than that from old WW1 war planes

How many miles will you have to drive to before the Government gets its £260 back from the tax revenues from the poor fuel economy of the Landrover?

Can't help feeling smug about the delusional 'tax evaders'.

sorry can you explain in simpelton terms?
wellll, yes i am paying a lot of money for fuel but i will continue to feel smug with not shelling out x hundreds of pounds all in one lump sum every year
Cheers Ed

 

[young Ed]

The tax disc on my motorbike was nicked on 01-10-14

i met someone once that kept an old tax disc in the holder and the current one in her pocket so it didn't get nicked
that was before they got abolished
Cheers Ed

 

[jazzkat]

the landrover? zilch! as i won't be getting a series one it will be made of new aluminum rather than that from old WW1 war planes

I assumed it would be an old series as to be £0 tax it would have to be pre 72?
There's nowt wrong with old series landies. (apart from the fuel economy)

 

[Saluki]

I assumed it would be an old series as to be £0 tax it would have to be pre 72?
There's nowt wrong with old series landies. (apart from the fuel economy)

I'd have one in a heartbeat (again)

 

[jazzkat]

I'd have one in a heartbeat (again)

Me too, every year at this time of year, thinking of the bad weather, makes me think of the time spent scraping the ice off the inside of the windscreen of my series III airportable

 

[young Ed]

yep will be an old series probably '60's
landrover windscreens never mist up with there latest anti mist technology, it is said to balance the temperature of the inside to the outside perfectly!
Cheers Ed