Taxing a car when the V5 is not in your name?

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Taxing a car when the V5 is not in your name?

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The story is this:

The car I am going to collect at the weekend has no road tax.

The car was px'ed by the previous but one owner at a local garage, and then I think the car was sold to the current owner, who is selling it to me.

The current owner did not fillout the V5 and send the relevant parts to the DVLA.

Indeed, there is a portion of the V5, the one at the top of the right hand page, missing, and I guess that this is a form reserved for motor dealers to allow them to handle a vehicle while registering it in their name. But that's just a guess.

So I have the V5, I have taken out insurance, and the vehicle has a current MoT.

The question, then, is can I tax this car with that V5?

THe previous owner but one, I can see, has signed and dated the V5 on 9th September, while I think the current owner took possession a week or so after that.

If I signed the form to say that I am the new keeper, what happens if the DVLA want to know what happened to the car in the intervening period? Clearly that has nothing to do with me - all I want to be able to do is drive it home legally.

Thanks for any light you can shed upon this.
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Post by Napoleon »

I found this:

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/media/pdf/forms/v10.pdf

I think I just fill in the V5C/2; and that's about it.

I'll send off the V5C now and date it so that I don't get anyone else's fixed penalties!
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all you need to do is fill in the new keepers supliment (the green section 10/slip ), as long as nobody elss has already put filled this in because the post office will not accept it if it has been tipexed out and re/wrighten, with this supliment corectly filled in you can purchase the road tax over the counter at a post office or DVLA taxation office,

then all you do is fill in and send off the rest of the V5C and post it to DVLA

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Post by Napoleon »

Thanks for the reply.

:)
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Post by myglaren »

citronut wrote:all you need to do is fill in the new keepers supliment (the green section 10/slip ), as long as nobody elss has already put filled this in because the post office will not accept it if it has been tipexed out and re/wrighten, with this supliment corectly filled in you can purchase the road tax over the counter at a post office or DVLA taxation office,

then all you do is fill in and send off the rest of the V5C and post it to DVLA

regards malcolm
Just to second this - my daughter taxed a recently purchased 106 using precisely this method.
Her V5 took 9 weeks to come through.
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Post by Napoleon »

All done. Was a complete breeze.

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