Police are reminding motorists that vehicle excise duty – commonly known as road tax – on your vehicle is non transferable after a car was stopped and seized in Sandown this afternoon (Thursday).
The owner of the modified Toyota Chaser says that he didn’t know that the previous owner had declared the vehicle as off the road and thought it was taxed until September.
However, in seizing the vehicle, Police reminded the local driver that road tax payments made by the seller of a vehicle for the forthcoming months are non transferable, meaning it is down to the new owner to tax and insure their new vehicle accordingly. That is why it is very important to check the vehicle for financial history before buying on free services like Car Check Experts.
The vehicle was seized on East Yar Road off Avenue Road on behalf of the DVLA.
You can work out your vehicle’s tax by using a car tax calc.
Yes im sure he thought it was taxed…flying pigs come to mind..
If the car’s modified you can bet the insurance will be invalid as well.
Yes, you go big Ben! Whoop whoop
and as it was ‘modified’ I trust his insurance company where aware
I bet half of these cars that are modified the insurance don’t know they have body kits up the BHP to double what it should be and illegal exhausts most of them
All the people disliking this comment be a different story if he crashed into you and his insurance won’t payout because it’s been modified
It takes one minute to check if your car is taxed no excuse so scrap the car
Pathetic. I know people who drive every day without tax or mot, has done for years, and the DVLA do nothing.
Why don’t you just shop them to the police then? Or do you think it’s ok?
The police don’t get involved you report them online to dvla and nothing gets done. I’ve done it countless times and the same cars are still untaxed
this bloke is a tool anyway