Alex Heney wrote:
I wouldn't call what could be up to 16 days 'about to expire', but in any
case you are wrong. If the vehicle is on SORN or has no existing tax for
whatever reason, it can still be taxed from the first of the *following*
month providing the application is made no more than 2 days in advance of
that. I would guess the reason for the concession being to allow for the
possibility that the first of the month could be a Sunday.

--
Rob

Rob wrote:
Can anybody explain to me any good reason why you can't tax a SORNed car in
advance?

I know the 'follow the money' reasoning is that it forces you to either pay
back to the start of the current month, or be likely to miss a day or two
before you can conveniently get to a PO at the start of the month, but I
can't see any sane reason why I shouldn't be able to buy tax now to get a
SORNed car back on the road on 1st April..

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:31:08 GMT, "PC Paul" <urd (AT) bitrot (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Precisely because people would do that, and put the new tax disc on
the car (and use it) as soon as they bought it.

Regardless of whether the DVLA website thinks that a new disc when
renewing is only valid from the 1st of the month, no policeman or
traffic warden doing a visual check is going to pull somebody for
displaying it.

So you would only get caught by the ANPR cameras, and when those rules
were brought in, there were very few of those around.
--
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"PC Paul" <urd (AT) bitrot (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Because you will stick the disc in the window and drive around as soon as
you get it.

Still not sure if we decide that was illegal, so you can't get one because
it isn't illegal and they don't want to loose the revenue or you can't get
one because it is illegal and they (naturally for the government) assume
you are a criminal who can't be trusted.

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