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       #Post#: 69372--------------------------------------------------
       Re: MOT/Historic TAX Confusion
   DIR By: NoelC
       Date: August 1, 2013, 5:17 pm
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       I believe the DVLA's flawed thinking is if something's taxed it
       will be driven and therefore must be insured Jon. In practice
       people with historic motors may well have them on LUF&T part of
       the year and road risk the other part, they really should have
       twigged this and made the bollocks not apply to the HISTORIC
       taxation class.
       #Post#: 69375--------------------------------------------------
       Re: MOT/Historic TAX Confusion
   DIR By: genem
       Date: August 1, 2013, 5:32 pm
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       A few extra lines of code cost tho....
       Its simple logic from their POV. If its not sorn then its on the
       road therefore must be Taxed & Insured. The computer has no way
       of knowing that its actually in bits under a tarp and heaven
       forfend that the Polis actually check, so its easier all round (
       FOR THEM) just to fire out the fines and wait for the dosh to
       roll into the skint Treasury.
       OT but I actually managed to get a fine ( late submission of tax
       return) cancelled. I argued that it went in on time it was just
       not correct, most of the subsequent "lateness" was how long they
       took to spot the error and return it. At one point they were
       looking to skin the missus and me for £1100. Phew.
       #Post#: 69379--------------------------------------------------
       Re: MOT/Historic TAX Confusion
   DIR By: NoelC
       Date: August 1, 2013, 7:27 pm
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       The flaw is there is no requirement to send the tax disc back
       when you SORN, and no obvious way to un-SORN unless you phone
       them. Take my Discgay. I bought it with 4 months tax but insured
       it with Tempcover.com for a day. I then SORNed it, kept the tax
       disc, got the lads at work to weld it up over about a month and
       when it passed the MOT then insured it proper. When it came to
       renewal time their computer got all confused. Now I had done
       nothing wrong, their systems just can't cope with it.
       The same thing applies to my old boss when he does weddings in
       his Routemaster. It's insured for road risk only for the days he
       uses it, then he SORNs it. The trouble is the DVLA can't cope
       with it at all, if he uses it twice in a month he's not going to
       tax, refund, tax, refund and pay twice for the same month.
       Likewise the DVLA say you can't do this without a 21 day gap.
       Why? Anyone is quite entitled to get single day insurance each
       time they use a vehicle, not our fault the DVLA are too stupid
       to have taken this requirement into account.  :wanker:
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