You can always check the DVLA website to see if your cars tax status, (it does take a while to be updated so check it again after a week if it shows not taxed.)
Still showing RFL up at the end of ths month! -
That is 1 week excatly and I thought the banks were bad taking 3/4 days to process a cheque.
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"That is 1 week excatly and I thought the banks were bad taking 3/4 days to process a cheque"
I am sure you are not that naive:-))
I work on the basis that Governments say one thing .. and do another
make promises they do not keep
Bully or target companies to do things and then do not hold themselves to account.
Recent events prove this attitude is sadly 100% justified.. I will not bore you with case histories but pensions and congestion tax plus WMD spring to mind.
Personally I would email and write to the AGency informing them they have not deducted cash from your account and complain. Then when you are persecuted for being taxless you have written proof of your trying to mitigate the Gov't's loss.
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Don't worry about it not showing, They only process the figures at the end of each month (this from the horses mouth) and then they issue fines to those who are not taxed. IMO you are taxed, you have a disc, you are not responsible to chase them up on their errors, you have provided them with a means of payment they have issued you the goods but not taken payment (yet).
What I meant was to check the site regularly that means check it in March, I bet in March it will show you as being taxed. IANAL (obviously) but they cannot fine you for this.
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If they have made an error and not taken it there is next to no chance they will come back on you. Their records will show you as taxed and paid up and it is highly unlikely that they trawl through millions of records every month checking for possible errors.
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If they have made an error and not taken it there is next to no chance they will come back on you. Their records will show you as taxed and paid up and it is highly unlikely that they trawl through millions of records every month checking for possible errors.
Unless Government Accounting has changed radically someone will be charged with reconciling discs issued with cash received on a daily, if not twice daily, basis. If it's DVLA's problem they will sort it eventually and as somebody else implied the best outcome for the OP is to earmark the cash himself and collect whatever penurious rate of interest his bank pays. I've had this sort of delay occasionally with commercial outfits, memorably a branch of Sainsbury's who took six weeks to process a debit card transaction, it's usually down to a glitch in their systems.
On the other hand it could be a problem in the OP's own bank or the clearing system.
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Occasionally Switch/Delta type payments are not cashed in - one of my offspring can testify to the fact as he keeps meticulous spending records.
However, it's best to wait until the six months' period during which such payments can be collected is up before deciding that the DVLA has not/will not collect the sum involved.
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I once stayed at a very nice hotel in central Toronto, Canada. Paid for everything on Mastercard and it never came through. That was a few years back, so I guess I'm safe.
I also once bought £250-worth of clothes from a big store and paid by card. It never appeared on the bill, but strangely I kept receiving junk mail about their own Store Card!
On the other hand both my wife and myself once accidently paid the annual water bill twice (i.e. we got a bill and we both paid it independently without realising). It took about six months of arguing to get the overpayment back - they wanted to hang on to it!!
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Pay it. Morally and ethically correct. Worse than that they may realise and void your tax at a very awkward moment such as holiday.
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Morally and ethically correct. >>
Morals and ethics?
You want to ditch them PU, they don't half get in the way.
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Pay it. Morally and ethically correct.
Hang on, I thought you were in the legal profession??
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Yes, but Falkirk isn't his client.
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