It gets worse - if I had applied 1 hour 53 minutes earlier I wouldn't have had to pay the penalty.
Normally I would have applied before the old one expired but because I have to wait with my parents on Thursdays and Fridays until they are in bed it is usually after 11pm before I get home. I then want fed first. So I applied at 1:53am on the 1st March.
EDIT : I bet whoever issued the ticket saw that the tax had been applied for but becauise I was late went ahead and issued ticket.
-- Edited by Peasie on Wednesday 6th of March 2013 04:57:52 PM
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Last night I decided to defrost the fridge. I'd let it get to ridiculous levels of ice. So I decided to give it a helping hand using a screwdriver like object (with a point not screwy thing) and hammer. And don't you just know I nicked the gas line. So I had gas hissing all over my hand and steam coming out my ears.
This morning I defrost it properly and clean the insides out ready for taking to recycling centre. (Another OCD thing of mine, cleaning things even though I know they are being thrown out....like the fleece that had a zip burst but went in the washing mnachine before being thrown out). I take the fridge out to my car and find a fixed penalty notice for not having a tax disc.
I then come back in the house and lo and behold my tax disc pops through the letterbox.
I'm an atheist - but things like this make me wonder if there might just be a God and he's having a laugh at me.
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Thats the reason I always cue up at the post office for my tax disc as I just don't trust the postal system to get it on time, plus mine is due the end of Dec so always worried about the xmas post!
I wonder what will happen in the next 24 hours?.....................
Thats the reason I always cue up at the post office for my tax disc as I just don't trust the postal system to get it on time, plus mine is due the end of Dec so always worried about the xmas post!
I wonder what will happen in the next 24 hours?.....................
I would do that but I don't think I can get my tax disc at my local post office. I've always done it online but I'm sure both my brothers have to travel to another post office to get their's - which is odd as thyat Post Office is in a small village.
The next 24 hours? I will be meeting a local accountant. He's considering me to sub-contract out a couple of payroll jobs to. He does a few payroll using HMRC software (simple payrolls) and for most of them he (or actually, his staff) will continue to use that. There is one that has 11 employees so HMRC software is no use. I'm hoping it's a foot in the door - and I have size 13 shoes.
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Sorry to hear about the plight over the tax disc / fridge Peasie.
Surely they could have checked that you had a tax disc with DVLC before going straight to fine.
Then again, where would be the profit in that.
Good luck with the accountants metey. Fingers crossed you've already got a full weeks worth of bad luck out of the way already.
Shaun.
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Sorry to hear about the plight over the tax disc / fridge Peasie.
Surely they could have checked that you had a tax disc with DVLC before going straight to fine.
Then again, where would be the profit in that.
Good luck with the accountants metey. Fingers crossed you've already got a full weeks worth of bad luck out of the way already.
Shaun.
That's what I thought - and then I had your next thought as well. It would have taken the same length of time that it took to write out the ticket. (I bet Kris is on soon to inform me it doesn't work that way). I've seen them waiting at a car park where there is yellow hatching at the entrance to the car park. There is then space for one car then there's a roundabout. They've caught a few people that have strayed onto the yellow hatching when the car in front hasn't gone round the roundabout quickly enough. I know they're there so I make sure I don't stray onto the hatching. Next time I'll give them a wave - just with a couple of my fingers.
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Going back a few years, I had a car crushed because it lacked a tax disc.
It's actually a long story, but in very short form:
It had failed the MOT test, and I had it parked on the road (in a parking bay, but still technically on the road), while I waited to do something about that. Meanwhile, my brother borrowed the battery because his was naff. When he returned it, he put it back in a rush, and damaged the voltage regulator (which he denies to this day, but given where it was, the way he put the battery back, and the fact that said voltage regulator was fine before he borrowed the battery, but broken after he'd put it back, I'm adamant he did!)
I ordered a replacement voltage regulator via a site whereby you enter details of what you need and they send it out to various scrapyards etc, who then get back to you with a price if they have the part. However, that regulator didn't arrive until after the tax disc had expired - and in fact it arrived while I was at work one day, and came home to find the car clamped due to the expired tax disc, and under threat of being towed and crushed.
I weighed up the options, and in the end said to hell with it: I let them tow and crush it - but I got good value out of it because I filled the car up with spare parts, and lots of other rubbish. They effectively disposed of that lot for me as well.
The car itself didn't actually cost me very much in the first place, and I'd had it a good few years, so it wasn't a great loss. At the time I was driving my MX-5 a lot more, anyway.
Hmm. That was the 'short' version. Heh.
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You're right Steve, the offence is to fail to display a valid excise license. There is a grace period of 5 days, but we're now outside that. For anyone interested the offence comes under s33 Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.
You could appeal Peasie, but I can't see it would do much good, it's unfortunately an absolute offence, either the disc was there or it wasn't.
Hopefully you'll have better luck with the accountant.
