I think the daft thing is that now they have changed from having the identifiable 'tax paid' disc, they have retained the idea of monthly increments, with an overlap on the selling of the car such that both buyer and seller pay for the same month's tax.
Why isn't it simply done on a daily basis -the seller refunded from the day of sale and the buyer paying from the day of sale?
There are anomalies that have to be built into the system; the tax is paid at an annual rate and months are all different lengths. Months are really nothing to do with it, just introduced to catch us out.
The motorist is taxed whenever they can and they make no attempt to even do it fairly.
What happened to 'the road fund'.
Grump, grump ....
Here here, when I sold the Max I had just paid my yearly insurance premium , £960 only 5 weeks into the renewal the insurance company ( CHUBB) gave me full refund prorate to the day, £873.00 landed back in my Bank within 48 hours of the call, a lesson for DVLA GREEDY BA@@@@@S
