Swansea

[Joloke]

Doovla

[worldofceri]

Current keeper's tax is invalid from the date of sale/transfer. They get an automatic refund from the start of the next month.

 

New keeper has to tax/SORN immediately, or else be sent to prison for thirty years. Their tax will start from the first of the current month.

 

Yes, that means HMRC get double tax for that month.

[Sigmund Fraud]

You buy the car, fill the V5 in, take the green slip and drive into the sunset. When you get home, you need to log onto the DVLA website and tax the car using the reference number on the green slip.

 

The seller must post the completed V5 to the DVLA, or use the online form on the DVLA website to inform them of the registered keeper change. Once they do that, they will get an automatic refund of any full months of tax left.

[The_Equalizer]

The DVLA website is well laid out these days and will do a better job of explaining that I certainly can:

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax

 

The bit that concerns you is:

 

"the green ‘new keeper’s details’ slip (V5C/2) from a log book if you’ve just bought it"

 

Basically you presume the old owner will cancel the tax asap which then allows you to pay for it as the new owner.

[Junkman]

I have always taxed my 'new' cars on the first of the Month after I bought them and I'm still a free man.

The car shows up as being taxed on every Gestapo surveillance system for the remainder of the Month you bought it in.

Because it actually is.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I'm with Junkman on this , unless it's SORNED I've never taxed until the next month. In fact the Audi 100 I had last summer, I forgot to tax at all, when I sold it I got a cheque from DVLA for 6 months tax! The previous owner had gone back to the US, but presumably he'd got a refund 2 months before when he sent the logbook off, which I know he did because I got a V5 in my name within a week.