Vehicle tax

[T-oddity]

Just a word of warning to folks about the new vehicle road tax system. I'm sure most of you know by now that the old car tax disc was done away with last October and when you renew your car tax now you no longer receive a disc to display in the car. what you might be less aware of is that if you buy a second hand car the tax is cancelled for the vehicle at the time you sign the vehicle docs and that as the new owner you are required to immediately renew the tax or sorn the vehicle.
You can by the way check to see if a vehicle is taxed using the gov web site:
https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax

I recently bought myself a Mitsubishi Delica as a bov project and have been happily driving it around after checking the above web site to check that it was still taxed. The previous owner of course has already paid the tax on the vehicle to the end of the month, I checked on the 24th of the month and it was taxed, I checked on the 26th and it now shows as being un taxed from the 16th!!! the day I bought the vehicle, so technically the moment I signed the veh docs and drove home I was driving the vehicle un taxed.

Oh and just to complicate things a little further because the Deli is a grey import and the doc ref no on the v5c/2 has 12 digits rather than the usual 11 the gov web site can't handle it "the computer says NO" so not able to tax or sorn the vehicle online

Any how just thought I'd give people a heads up, happy motoring