Death of the Tax Disc

October this year will see the end of the paper tax disc we all display in our car windscreens. From October, all road fund licence (Road Tax) will be recorded on-line and checked via number plate recognition cameras currently in operation around the country.

So how do you tax your car in the future? All road fund licences will be payable on-line or at the post office, as before. All that changes is that you won’t have a tax disc to display in your vehicle. But be careful, if you don’t pay your road fund licence (RoadTax), you could be in for a fine of £1,000 and the cameras are out there watching you dive around.

On the subject of fines, if you take your car off the road for any reason, make sure you SORN (Statutory Off Road Notice) the car on-line. If you don’t, again you could get a fine.

So what happens when you sell or buy a car. Well, this is where things change from the current system. When you sell your car to either a garage in part exchange or privately, you will receive  a refund for any complete months road fund licence left on the car. The new owner will then be liable to tax the car from when they took ownership. So from October this year whenever you buy a new or used car from where ever, you’ll need to re-tax it before you can drive it on the road.

Car sales centres like us will already be up to speed with the new rules and have everything in place for when things change over.

there is a good article on this subject here