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mikeC · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 6:51 pm Post subject: Farewell to the Tax Disc

Well, it's only a few days before we say goodby to the Tax Disc. From 1st October DVLA will no longer be issuing the paper Tax Disc, and it will no longer be an offence to fail to display a current tax disc.

Will you miss it?

I don't feel strongly about it, but I do feel that in future years we will come to miss it; and it will be far harder in years to come to regain the old registration number of a car that has been off the road for years if there is no tax disc evidence.

Keith D · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 2:13 am Post subject:

The powers that be did away with our windscreen stickers a couple of years ago and since then many people have been prosecuted for failing to license their cars! Not because they have done so deliberately, but because they no longer have the date of expiry in front of them! The authorities notify you that it is due, generally five or six weeks before actual expiry, but this gets forgotten. (An expired license is a serious matter as our third party insurance is included in the license fee.)

An enterprising company has started up just to email you a couple of days before expiry. (At a cost!)

Keith

ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: South Cheshire

When I got my new modern in Feb this year, it of course didn't have a tax disc, it arrived a week or so later, but I never bothered to fit, it's been quite nice having a totally clear windscreen.

Of the 3 things ones obliged to have to keep a vehicle on the road in the UK, namely, tax, insurance and MOT, it odd that the least important of these is the one that required displaying.

I'm planning on fitting period disc to my classics, for the year they were manufactured

It will be interesting to see in 12 months time if there has been an increase in tax avoidance.

To Mike's point about reclaiming an original registration; it shouldn't be a problem because as long as the vehicle has had any flavour of a V5 in its life, the DVLA will have an electronic record.

Dave

ka · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 600 Location: Orkney.

Claiming original registrations are easier if the vehicle has a V5, but not impossible if not, but a different issue.
I had a phone call from the original owner of my Morgan (I bought it off him, therefore am the second owner from new), and he was doing a bit of house clearing, and found some of the tax discs from 1960, 61 and 62. I now have something to place in my tax disc holder.
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

I guess it may increase the number of abandoned cars littering our streets but I do like the thought that I can now legally display a period disc instead of another reminder that we live in the present day.

Peter
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK

A 12-year-old collector of tax discs:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771457/My-hobby-taxing-s-fun-Boy-collects-12-000-discs-old-car-windscreens.html

Will the number of people having an interest in velology increase I wonder?

RJ
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Old Wrench · Joined: 23 Dec 2013 Posts: 226 Location: Essex and France

My current concerns are two: since my wife and I regularly travel to and from France and reside at our French home for extended periods of time, the gendarmes usually look for a tax disc or some other such, including the Carte Verte, which proves valid insurance is in force. There is of course, no road fund tax in France (unless the car is used for purely commercial purposes).

Additionally, the gendarmes demand the paper counterpart of the driving license: however this also vanished early next year!

I can just imagine a roadside check gendarme pulling out his iPhone and searching for the UK government DVLA site;.

Not!

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

Why are they getting rid of tax discs anyway. As I understand it if you sell a car thats taxed you it is surrendered automatically and you get a rebate (only for complete months,and if you buy a car you must tax it (back dated to the first day of the current month). Is that the reason,it increases revenue?
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websnail · Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Posts: 78 Location: West Sussex

Old Wrench · Joined: 23 Dec 2013 Posts: 226 Location: Essex and France

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4859 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
Some of you may be aware that I have been a driving isntructor for the last 44 years, I also have a monthly column in one of the profession's association's news journals.
In the 2013 March column which would be in members' hands in time for the beginning of April I published this:

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

I'm amazed Cameroon and the Posh Boys haven't privatized the DVLA and hived it off to some company that half dozen tories have got shares in. Maybe they will,and this is just the first step.
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lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1600 Location: Le Mans

I must bring this up to date before they disappear!

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

How long before a tax disc holder pops up on the Antique Road Show?.
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Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

When I checked a moment ago, 41,518 optimistic sellers were offering tax disc holders on Ebay...
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