tax fine.

[C17 CMH]

does anybody know how much the fine is if you get caught without no tax?

[sweet_corsa]

Around 90 quid i think, and you dont have to be caught without it, its automatic....they know when its due and you have 2 weeks to renew it from the date it runs out....

[PaulW]

£80 fine instant

£40 if paid within 28 days

http://www.dvla.gov.uk

has all the info there

[rick]

yup it\'ll be £110 for 12 and £60 for 6 for your car

[purecarsound]

CCJs taken out against 100,000 motorists

The Department of Transport is playing hardball with those who don\'t pay their road tax. According to the Telegraph, over 100,000 motorists have been fined over £1,500 each in the last nine months in a tax avoidance crackdown. And each of them could end up with black marks on their credit record.

The report said that the driver and vehicle licensing agency (DVLA) in Swansea has started applying for County Court Judgements (CCJs) against the 80,000 motorists who, in the second half of last year, refused to pay their fines; allowing this news to leak out appears suggests an element of deterrence.

Since the start of 2005, the number of CCJs has increased, with the registry that monitors CCJs expecting over one-third of them to be lodged by the DVLA. If the average fine of £1,500 were not enough, the smear on your credit record is, with a CCJ about the worst such blemish you can attract, according to experts at Experian, the credit history agency.

CCJs can sit on your credit file for up to six years, and may be monitored by a panoply of financial organisations, including banks, insurers, credit card companies, mortgage lenders, mobile phone companies and even, in some cases, prospective employers. Even if you get credit, it\'s bound to cost you more, say experts.

However the DVLA, which estimated that some 1.75 million vehicles of the 22 million plus on the UK\'s roads were untaxed, has never publicly acknowledged that it would seek a CCJ against individuals failing to pay their fines.

Tax Disc Fines in the Post

Thousands of drivers who failed to renew their tax discs will be receiving an unwelcome surprise in the post - an £80 penalty - under a new enforcement scheme. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) says 97,000 penalties are being issued to UK motorists whose discs expired at the end of December.

Until now an untaxed vehicle only led to a fine if it was spotted on the road, for example by a police officer. Ex-owners who fail to notify the DVLA of a sale can also now be fined. Owners who have sent their cars to be scrapped or store them off a public road without informing the DVLA will be similarly targeted. Vehicles without a valid tax disc will also stand a greater risk of being clamped under the new rules.

The new rules are designed to prevent the huge number of untaxed vehicles which are on the road.

New Road Tax Rules

The new Road Tax rules, which came into force on 1 January 2004, mean that the keeper named on the Vehicle Registration Certificate (the logbook) is legally responsible for taxing the vehicle until the DVLA has been notified that it is off the road or has been sold, transferred, scrapped or exported.

If you don\'t tax your vehicle on time you will receive a penalty of up to £80. If you continue to drive without a valid tax disc you could be fined a minimum of £1,000.

Every month the DVLA will carry out computer checks to identify vehicles that do not have a valid tax disc. They don\'t need to see your vehicle on a public road to find out if its tax disc is up to date. They just need to check their computer, which stores details about every registered vehicle and vehicle keeper in Great Britain. Even if you don\'t pay for your tax disc - for example, if your vehicle is in an exempt taxation class - you must still display your tax disc and it must be up to date.

If you don\'t use or keep your vehicle on a public road, you must make a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN) declaration instead of renewing your tax disc. If you don\'t you will receive a penalty of up to £80. Before you start to use or keep your vehicle on a public road, you must get a valid tax disc.

By law, you must tell the DVLA if you sell, transfer, scrap or export your vehicle. If you don\'t, you will continue to be liable for taxing it and will receive all correspondence relating to this and any other offences committed in the vehicle. Tell the DVLA when you dispose of your vehicle and, from January 2004, they will send you an acknowledgement letter which proves you are no longer responsible for taxing it. You should keep this letter safe.

I is your responsibility to keep the details of your Vehicle Registration Certificate - also known as your logbook - up to date. If you move home or change your name, tell the DVLA. If you don\'t tell them, the information on your Vehicle Registration Certificate will be out of date. This may cause you problems when you come to sell or relicense your vehicle.

Hope the above answers the question!

So if i were you I would save a bit of beer/fag money and get one of these on time....