Road Tax (refund)

[jiminwatford]

Hi, quick question hopefully,

I bought a van on Dec 19th. It broke yesterday..

It has two months tax with it

The V14 refund form does say you need to be the current or previous registered keeper

I believe the previous owner has sent the V5 off

If i send the refund form off now, ie before Jan 1st, i will not be the registered keeper (presumably) by the time they receive it

Will they (the DVLA):

a) Throw it away

b) Wait until i become the registered keeper and refund me from that point (actually why would expect the keeper to change anytime soon)

c) Correlate the date of change of keeper with tax refund date, and refund the whole two months (i guess very unlikely)

i could ring them everyday until i am on their system as the registered keeper then send the tax off. This will certainly cost me the first month and possibly the second as well

They're currently not answering the phone as they're too busy

Sorry for the not-so-quick question

Thanks
James

[trouble]

Just stick a covering letter with it.

You will need to get it in the post to them prior to the end of the month.

[jiminwatford]

Ah, yeh , that's a good idea

Thanks

[mirafioriman]

I might be wrong here but do you not have to have been the registered keeper for at least one month before you can refund the tax disc?

[danburger28]

You need to be careful with this, as if the details you put on the form to reclaim the tax, isn't EXACTLY the same as what they have on their system, they won't pay out.
For example, if you have your middle name on the registration doc, but you only put your initial on the refund form, they wont pay it. Plus by the time its been sorted, the rest of the disc would have expired, and you wont get anything!
So I'd wait till you get the V5 back, then claim then, as you'll have what they have.

[orioncrazycarl]

really worth the hassles for a couple quid tax back??