Computerised road tax shite

[uk_senator]

Tax renewal document. Tick.

MOT. Tick.

Insurance. Tick.

Tax application accepted? Computer says no.....

 

[DSdriver]

How long is it since the MOT was done? It seems to take them about 48 hours to catch up. When I tried to renew my tax online I just got a generic fault message at stage 3 of the process. It worked the next day though.

[uk_senator]

How long is it since the MOT was done? It seems to take them about 48 hours to catch up. When I tried to renew my tax online I just got a generic fault message at stage 3 of the process. It worked the next day though.

 

Its MOT is about to run out in a few days, however, as far as I can tell as long as the things got one, it is eligible for RFL, if I took the renewal to my post office, they would quite happily take my hard earned, the Doovla computer has taken an exception though.

 

I did want to tax it before the MOT ran out because I`m not going to be using this car for 6 or 7 weeks & I`m busy (& broke) enough at the moment without having to take a car I hardly use for an MOT....

 

I had the same thing happen a few months ago with one of my other cars too.

 

Who`d have thought it`d be so hard to throw money at the government?

[DSdriver]

In that case I refer you to the question I asked a while back on page 54 of SQA

Craig the Princess wrote:

DSdriver wrote:

MOT runs out on 26th inst, Tax runs out at the end of the month. Can I get another years tax on Monday using old MOT certificate?

 

 

No, it would need to be MoTed on 1st of the month. Sorry

[uk_senator]

Ohhhh for God sake...

 

I`m guessing thats a new-ish rule?

 

I`m going to take the paperwork to the post office tomorrow to see if they pick up on it...

[dollywobbler]

Not a new rule at all. Sorry!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I too have run into this problem. Wouldn't it be nice if the tax disc website actually said 'you can't tax with this short MOT' instead of saying "MOT not found".

[uk_senator]

Not a new rule at all. Sorry!

 

Well, I`ve managed to get tax at the post office several times, with similarly short MOT`s when I`ve had no intention of using the car but needed to leave them on public highways.

 

I`ll let you know what happens tomorrow...

[Father Ted]

Not a new rule at all. Sorry!

At LEAST 10 years - I got the bums rush from Chorley GPO when I was working down the red light district, and that was 2001, for an MOT that wasnt valid when the road tax kicked in on the 1st of the following month.

[Craig the Princess]

Not a new rule at all. Sorry!

 

Well, I`ve managed to get tax at the post office several times, with similarly short MOT`s when I`ve had no intention of using the car but needed to leave them on public highways.

 

I`ll let you know what happens tomorrow...

 

Short MoT is fine, as long as it is MoTed on the first day on the month the tax starts. My Ambassador is in the same situation (MoT expires 22nd November - can't tax it), it is a PITA.

[oldford]

As above your MOT expires 11/11/11, so if you are taxing it from the end of this month the MOT won't be valid on the day that the tax disc comes into force. If it expired on 02/12/11 you should be able to tax it.

 

The MOT database is quick, I've MOT d a car and within 15 minutes of doing so viewed the results on the MOT history check site.

[HillmanImp]

This has probably also been covered in stupid questions, but if you are parking it on the road should it not also have an MOT ? I am sure that the police would still pick it up on ANPR if they were to drive past.

[Cavcraft]

I believe the MOT database is still a bit behind so the tax and insurance would show up on ANPR but (at the moment) the MOT probably wouldn't. Tbh having a car that's taxed would ordinarily mean you're not likely to get any hassle if you're parked in a carpark or such like as it'd probably stop curtain twitchers reporting you to the council as much as anything.

[uk_senator]

Well, worked for me, thank God...