VED & change of address

[FakeConcern]

My daughter is moving out soon & her car tax due this month. I read in a letters page that if you tell the DVLA of a change of address, they cancel your tax & you must re tax the car, thus losing a months tax. Anyone know if this is true?

 

See the cutting (sorry from Torygraph!)

[New POD]

Unlikely.

[Skizzer]

I smell bullshit.  A phone call to the DVLA on Tuesday should swiftly resolve it - pity the Telegraph 'journalist' couldn't be arsed before going to print, really.  Doovla, for all their faults, are normally pretty helpful on the phone.

 

The Stupid Question Amnesty thread is ideal for this sort of thing, by the way.

[406V6]

On the subject of changing address, I moved a couple of months back and sent the V5 to DVLA for amending the address. Four+ weeks later and still not received the new one. They say on the web site don't contact them until it's been six weeks. Flippin heck are they slow or what ?  Fortunately I sent the V5 with "signature needed" and I've got the online tracker saying they received it so they can't wriggle out of it when I chase them in a couple of weeks.

[sheffcortinacentre]

can smell the bullshit from ear.

[FakeConcern]

I smell bullshit.  A phone call to the DVLA on Tuesday should swiftly resolve it - pity the Telegraph 'journalist' couldn't be arsed before going to print, really.  Doovla, for all their faults, are normally pretty helpful on the phone.

 

The Stupid Question Amnesty thread is ideal for this sort of thing, by the way.

 

Sorry. I didn't think the question was that stupid! I was hoping someone who had recently moved could tell me.

 

This one is, though. If she phones up to ask (more likely I phone) on Tuesday her car will be untaxed for a while. There used to be a few days leeway, is this still the case?

[Skizzer]

Amnesty questions don't actually have to be stupid - there's another VED question-and-answer running on there at the moment, or was last I looked.

 

DVLA website says if you change address at the same time as the VED is due then you can both tax the car and change your address at the same time at a Post Office.

 

It doesn't say anything at all about moving house invalidating your VED, because that is just lazy shit 'journalism' and lies. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dvla+change+address

[scaryoldcortina]

Way back in the dim and distant past, when dinosaurs walked the land and road tax wasn't linked to the keeper and some of it may have been spent on roads....

 

I sent a logbook away for change of address, and when it came back I was also the previous keeper - they had processed it as a keeper change because presumably it was far more likely that I sold my car to someone with the same name than move house. Maybe that's what happened?

 

Also, couple of days untaxed isn't an issue, but a whole month "skipped" is.

[brownnova]

Having moved this month and received my new address v5, I can confirm that my car is still taxed (just checked on direct gov) so as expected the letter in the newspaper clipping is BS!!

[FakeConcern]

Thanks Brownnova, that's exactly what I wanted to know.

[jonny69]

Sounds like bollocks to me, and:

 

pity the Telegraph 'journalist' couldn't be arsed before going to print, really.

 

Exactly.

 

"the DVLA should compensate everyone it has falsely accused"

 

The journalist clearly didn't do anything about it or even look into the subject which either meant said journo was too lazy or this was completely made up.

[garbaldy]

As the PIC shows said journalist is hj = honest John, what else do we expect from a car salesman if the other thread on here about them is anything to go by.

[barefoot]

Plus eleventy on 'Honest John is a Complete Fucktard'.