No to Double Car Tax by the D.V.L.A.

On the 07 February I purchased a car in a private sale. I must tax the car from the 01 February. However there is road tax in force for that car until the 28 February. The previous owner of the car can not claim a refund on the unused portion of the tax as it is mid-way through a month and the D.V.L.A only refund a full month. Therefore, the D.V.L.A. are receiving tax twice for the month of February for that vehicle, around £25.00.

If you multiply this by the number of vehicles purchased throughout the country, throughout a month, and with car tax being up to £800 a year for many larger, prestige vehicles, this may easily run in to tens of thousands of pounds being paid twice. Every month. It is only the vehicle that needs to be taxed, not the keeper. Therefore any reasonable person would consider it right and fair that they as a new keeper would automatically buy road tax from the date of expiry of the current one in force. No laws would be broken and no one would be out of pocket.

Since beginning this petition, I have also discovered that if you buy a brand new car and it comes with the first year free of road tax, and you sell it within that first year, the new owner does not get the remainder of the year free, but has to tax it at the second year rate. How can the D.V.L.A ever justify this?

This current scheme is only a sneaky scheme to make extra money. 

I have written to my M.P. John Whittingdale. He has replied and passed my letter to the minister responsible. I have also sent e.mails to BBC's Watchdog, and the editor of Top Gear and the press officer at the R.A.C. Please support me by signing this and then 'sharing' it among your friends.

PLEASE DON'T THINK I HAVE IGNORED THIS. I HAVE HAD EDITORIALS IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL PRESS, EXCHANGED CORRESPONDANCE WITH THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, THE DVLA AND BBC's WATCHDOG.

PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT ME.