New rules for taxing a car on purchase

Kit 275GTB · #1 26th January 2015, 18:09

It may be small change in the whole build cost but it annoys me to give the DVLA double tax for the month in which you buy a car (the buyer taxes for the whole month and the seller can only claim a refund from the 1st of the next month). Has anyone found a way to overcome this?

Dpaz · #2 27th January 2015, 21:06

Don't close the sale till the last day of the month. It is a stupid idea worthy of the idiots at DVLA.

Kit 275GTB · #3 28th January 2015, 09:20

but the rules say the new owner must tax the car before using it on the road so I think the best way for the new owner is to collect it on the 1st.

Dpaz · #4 28th March 2015, 20:35

DVLA is a profit making organisation(?) They make money by ripping us off and cutting staff and services.