Taxing a car after purchase

[Toms306]

So you would limit your car choice to only finding a car with tax on it already?

How about using the landline/phone/computer of the person you're buying the car from?

Surely having to buy a car, if it needs taxing having to then drive untaxed to the nearest post office or get a lift there, pay for car, get docs, drive to the P.O, get tax, drive back, fit tax disk and drive home is more complicated than sitting outside their house and taxing it over the phone/internet/using their phone/internet.

You've also then got to limit the time to P.O opening times to when you can buy a car, people often buy cars at weekends/on evenings when P.O's are shut - it's generally just more of an inconvenience doing it the old way.

Your argument to me just seems so invalid, you're saying you'd either just wait to find a car that comes with tax, or be happier going to pick it up and hoping you can find a post office to tax it.

It's hardly limiting choice, most cars still had tax on them with the old system, until they brought in the daft rule about having to be sorn if not insured. I only bought one withiut tax...the previuos owner had been driving it without tax for a month anyway so he delivered it to me lol - I said I wouldn't drive it untaxed but he wasn't bothered.

I dont know about you but I certainly wouldn't let a stranger into my house to use the computer, never know who they might be! With that I wouldn't expect anyone to let me into thier house either.

I'm not totally against the new system, just parts of it. Removing tax as soon as a vehicle is sold is ridiculous, no one expect the tax man benefits from that.