No tax disc on display

[LMH]

Hi

If your car is parked on a road and is not showing a tax disc, and plod comes along and radios in pnc check, what's the usual outcome? (as said car hasn't been seen since).

Lisa

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

With no road tax it may not have any insurance either. In which case the vehicle is removed from the road and taken to a compund. If not claimed within a certain time (14 days?) then it is crushed.

 

[Philspadders]

it is an offence not to display a valid tax disc. If the car is untaxed it could be impounded. If the car is taxed but the owner has failed to display the tax disc then he is liable to prosecution and a fine

 

[mostavern]

Lisa,
generally police can tell from a pnc check that your car is taxed, if there's no one with the vehicle and no tax on display there's a form to fill in and it goes off to the dvla,

with regards to what someone said regarding no insurance in the met you have 14 day's to collect your car or it goes to auction or gets crushed, off the top of my head it's £150 to get your car back and £12 a day storage fee you can't just remove a car from the street that's showing no insurance there has to be a driver with it at the time

hope this helps
mark.

 

[LMH]

Hi

Thanks for the replies.

It was a car parked across the road. Its driver is doing some building work near by. A pc stopped and looked at the car and shouted across to me, 'is this your car? its got no tax disc displayed'. I told the pc it wasn't my car, and told him where to find the driver. I saw the pc on his radio, then I had to leave. I haven't seen the driver or the car since.

So i was just being a nosy neighbour really.

lisa

 

[WatsonJohnG]

My daughter had a vintage tax exempt vehicle(Commer van)
She had the tax disc in the house
She got a police notice saying that she had no tax showing
She went to the police station with it etc
When she got another letter she presumed it was now OK and ignored it and subsequent letters
She then found the car clamped in lieu of £423 fines etc and with a promise that the bailiffs were returning etc
Fortunately dad has a credit card and was able to save bacon
So she had a fine for not exhibiting a tax exempt tax disc on a tax exempt vehicle for which she had the tax disc but hadn't stuck it on the windscreen

Parental words fail you(me)

 

[RegandPat]

I have just brought my car and it had one tax disc on the screen that was validated and he gave me a second one to replace the one on the screen.
I hope it was something to do with, it had a personal plait on that was changed in the garage.
The new disc was for the number plait that was changed to.
I am only guessing but I suppose they have to apply for a second disc when selling the car.

 

[GeorgeandAde]

I think the MOT certificate will have to be changed to the new registration too.
Mine had to be done when i transferred the registration number to a different vehicle,then had to wait for the new registration document to be returned from DVLA.
Adrian

 

[602]

Hi,
Double jeapardy. You can be fined for not having a tax disc AND simultaneousy fined for not displaying the disc that you haven't got. Something like prosectuting a burglar for breaking into a house, and prosecting him for going equipped.
But my experience (as a DVLA VED enforcer) has been that the police will deal with non-display by a £10 fixed penalty ticket. On the other hand, its 25 years since I left that job.
More recently, but still a long time ago, my son was stopped while driving a car without a disc. He was the OWNER, but I was the REGISTERED KEEPER. It was me that was prosecuted for KEEPING an untaxed car on the road. My defence was that the car was taxed shortly before he was stopped, but the disc had not yet been attached to the windscreen. My trial lasted an hour and a half. Eventually the PC declared that my son had shown him his insurance cover note. Ooops? No way! My son had a policy specific to that car. I had a trader's policy covering me for any vehicle that I was licenced to drive, and that was the certificate used to tax his car. NOT GUILTY, and the magistrates said they would not pursue the matter of FAILURE TO DISPLAY (after seven months?)
I understand that the PO now record the TIME that you tax your car.
I believe there is now a three day period of grace after your disc expires, but I don't know if that allows you to drive your car, or just take your time declaring SORN.
Heaven help us if HMR&C adopt the same attitude as DVLA. Who let them become that powerful?
602

 

[Clive-Cardiff]

Hi

Thanks for the replies.

It was a car parked across the road. Its driver is doing some building work near by. A pc stopped and looked at the car and shouted across to me, 'is this your car? its got no tax disc displayed'. I told the pc it wasn't my car, and told him where to find the driver. I saw the pc on his radio, then I had to leave. I haven't seen the driver or the car since.

So i was just being a nosy neighbour really.

lisa

Maybe the driver has finished the job at your neighbours

 

[LMH]

No the job's scheduled to finish in April. Apparently, someone has been dropping him off in the mornings.

Lisa