Trying to tax my car online now.

Sorry, it has not been possible to match the vehicle with a MOT Test Certificate at this time and you are unable to complete your application for a tax disc using this service.

If you have a MOT Test Certificate…

It appears the vehicle has not yet been updated on the MOT Test Certificate database. You can phone the MOT helpline for information (with permission of the car owner). The telephone number is 0870 606 0440.

Cert says I'm valid, THEIR MOT check sites says it's valid.

The phone number they put up is "no longer in use".

Now I'll have to queue with the ferkin junkies in the middle of town during my lunch and I'll have to use cash putting me in the feckin red.

Or just try it some other day in the month, you've got bags of time. I work in IT, these things do happen sometimes, and they're not always obvious/easy to fix. Since the MOT check is coming back OK it's clearly on the computer, just that the online tax part of the DVLA is having trouble seeing that record and (as you'd expect) it "fails safe" and assumes that you don't have a certificate unless proved otherwise (rather than letting people through with no certificate).

Don't quote me on it but I think you'll be able to use a credit card in the post office same as online.

You can, but from memory there's a slightly bigger surcharge than using a credit card online (3% vs 2.5% rings a bell, so not much). I haven't done it in the Post Office for a few years cos online works so well

I've been told it's possibly because my MOT expires 1 day before the tax and they're both due this month. It would be nice if it said that.

Car in for MOT on the 27th hopefully it'll go on the system within 24hr and I can use the 5 days grace to wait on the disc.

Failing that I'll fight my way past the junkies, drunks, mentally infirm, unwashed stinky weirdos and the living dead who inhabit the areas around the post office and do it on the 29th/30th.

I've been told it's possibly because my MOT expires 1 day before the tax and they're both due this month. It would be nice if it said that.

Yes that would be the reason, my dad was turned away at the post office many years ago for that very same reason, as you are basically taxing a car without a current MOT.

IIRC you have to at least 14 days left on your MOT before you can tax a car.

IIRC you have to at least 14 days left on your MOT before you can tax a car.

As said would be nice if it gave you that reason rather than having to ask around. Or even putting a working phone number on their site, or even the right web address on the form

Not having a good day, grumble grumble

As said would be nice if it gave you that reason rather than having to ask around. Or even putting a working phone number on their site, or even the right web address on the form

Not having a good day, grumble grumble

You have obviously never had to use the Environment Agency website, it's so crap even their own staff recommend against using it.

Or, radical notion, try MOTing in early to mid May next year, and then you'll have an almost full ticket when you want to tax.

As said would be nice if it gave you that reason rather than having to ask around. Or even putting a working phone number on their site, or even the right web address on the form

Not having a good day, grumble grumble

If you read the T & C's it does say that!

Or, radical notion, try MOTing in early to mid May next year, and then you'll have an almost full ticket when you want to tax.

That's just crazy talk

Try having insurence that runs out 5 days before tax is due, they dont update database in time even if its all sorted early, taxing it for 6 months this time am not messing about like this every time, altho mot is due end of december but i can sort that early so it has time to update there databases

If you read the T & C's it does say that!

+1

We've all had stern memo's that MOT's must be done 3 weeks before tax due so the office can tax online and if they cant and have to go to the post office, we'll have to pay an admin fee of £25 to cover costs of sending someone to queue up.