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So I tax my car for 6 months in 1st April for 6 mths at a bargain price of £382.50.
I use it for 3 days (not really relevant).
I SORN it well before the end of April and I have just received a £289 refund so just short of £100 for the pleasure.
How on this planet do they work that out??
An absolute stripe up of the highest order and they wonder why people don’t bother.
I use it for 3 days (not really relevant).
I SORN it well before the end of April and I have just received a £289 refund so just short of £100 for the pleasure.
How on this planet do they work that out??
An absolute stripe up of the highest order and they wonder why people don’t bother.
It's actually a 10% surcharge for a single 6 month payment which is not refunded: https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-refund
gov.uk website said:
You’ll automatically get a refund cheque for any full months left on your vehicle tax. The refund is calculated from the date DVLA gets your information. The cheque is sent to the name and address on the vehicle log book.
You will not get a refund for:
So, pay for 12 months on a card that doesn't attract any fees and you'll get the full unused months back.You will not get a refund for:
- any credit card fees
- the 5% surcharge on some direct debit payments
- the 10% surcharge on a single 6 month payment
cuprabob said:
Doesn't help you now but you pay a 5% premium for taxing for 6 months. You could have saved a little by taxing for 12 months, no premium, and you would have been refunded the 11 unused months when you SORNed it. No way of getting around paying for a full month in April either way.
It's actually 10% for buying only 6 months. For example, a car that is £200 for 10 months is £110 for a single payment for 6 months. It is 5% if you sign up to pay by direct debit, presumably to encourage it :https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables/rates-f...
They need to add it onto petrol.
Fairer and directly correlated to CO2 output, rather than the bracket b
ks which is near meaningless.
I think DD is the way to go for a full year, assuming inflation on salaries is higher and interest in the banks is now a thing, you can pay those final payments for the year more easily than at the start.
Fairer and directly correlated to CO2 output, rather than the bracket b
ks which is near meaningless.I think DD is the way to go for a full year, assuming inflation on salaries is higher and interest in the banks is now a thing, you can pay those final payments for the year more easily than at the start.
Mr Whippy said:
They need to add it onto petrol.
Fairer and directly correlated to CO2 output, rather than the bracket bks which is near meaningless.
I think DD is the way to go for a full year, assuming inflation on salaries is higher and interest in the banks is now a thing, you can pay those final payments for the year more easily than at the start.
Exactly add to fuel then you pay for what you use and stops Fairer and directly correlated to CO2 output, rather than the bracket b
ks which is near meaningless.I think DD is the way to go for a full year, assuming inflation on salaries is higher and interest in the banks is now a thing, you can pay those final payments for the year more easily than at the start.
s driving around untaxed.sixor8 said:
cuprabob said:
Doesn't help you now but you pay a 5% premium for taxing for 6 months. You could have saved a little by taxing for 12 months, no premium, and you would have been refunded the 11 unused months when you SORNed it. No way of getting around paying for a full month in April either way.
It's actually 10% for buying only 6 months. For example, a car that is £200 for 10 months is £110 for a single payment for 6 months. It is 5% if you sign up to pay by direct debit, presumably to encourage it :https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables/rates-f...
Paying for it on fuel always made perfect sense
The juicier ur car the more u pay
More miles you do the more u pay
Foreigners pay
After all you can only drive one car at a time and taxing multiple cars is impossible for me
But the trouble is now that electric cars wouldn’t be paying and they need to start if not already
The juicier ur car the more u pay
More miles you do the more u pay
Foreigners pay
After all you can only drive one car at a time and taxing multiple cars is impossible for me
But the trouble is now that electric cars wouldn’t be paying and they need to start if not already
e600 said:
They should refund on days used, it’s a simple computer task to identify the refund payment.
This is not a capability issue in the slightest.They just don't want to.
Like the change to not transferring remaining tax with change of ownership, they like being able to get money from both old and new owners that month.
Still, owning a car is more expensive in some other countries, I suppose.
InitialDave said:
e600 said:
They should refund on days used, it’s a simple computer task to identify the refund payment.
This is not a capability issue in the slightest.They just don't want to.
Like the change to not transferring remaining tax with change of ownership, they like being able to get money from both old and new owners that month.
Still, owning a car is more expensive in some other countries, I suppose.
It’s a de-facto PAYG system if you could get refunds to daily levels of granularity.
Which would then beg the question of it all being on fuel used again.
It’s got to be worth about 1 or 2 pence on fuel hasn’t it? And they can sack off the entire ‘untaxed car’ issue, and all the associated bureaucracy cost.
For EVs put a bit extra on house electric
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