bought a bike with no tax. have i just wasted a week off?

[kiers]

im picking up a bike tomorrow and ive got the rest of the week off, was planning to get some riding in while the weather aint too bad. but if i insure it online how am i supposed to tax it, i wont have the docs before next week.

can i just tax it online then pick up the disc from the previous owner?
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[Nb]

Use ebike and you can print your certificate of insurance off, thats what i did to tax my bike.
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[Charlie]

My local post office wouldn't take an internet print out...

Doesn't the online taxing place let you ride your bike around before they post it you?
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[kiers]

might do, could get a bollocking for failure to displaythough. but it loks like thats the only way im gonna be able to ride it this week
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[Reevo8]

Tax it online. it is registered as taxed on the system. The thing is that occasionally the insurance will take a while to show on the system, and coupled with the v5 being registered elsewhere it may be a shenanigan to get your tax disc posted to you rather than the previous owner!

[kiers]

if the tax disc does end up posted to the previous owner, im guessing that will be the bloke im buying it off, i could just get him to send me it, either that or just buy another 12 months tax when ins docs come through. its only 15 pound after all.
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[.Chris.]

Does the previous owner have insurance on the bike? If so, why not get him/her to tax it for you? Just add the £15 to the sale price.
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[Reevo8]

£15 quid in the bank is £15 in the tank, thats a good tank of fuel in a sports bike there, do that then and ask the previous owner to send it yourway. Or try paying over the phone. Might be easier talking to someone and getting them to note the change of keeper to save the hassle..

[iooi]

Well how are the PO to know its you thats printed it.....Tell them thats what was sent to you. Or go to another PO. Bigger and busy one's are best.

Along with the new owner bit of the V5 and MOT is all you need.

You may find that you trying to tax online will fail as your card details won't match the reg keeper. Something to do with preventing fraud
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[kiers]

[Reevo8]

More chance online or on the phone.

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[alun111]

[kiers]

oh right, ok then cant really go with ebike cos i cant afford it guess ill just have to wait
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[DidierD]

I did the same as you. The bike had MOT but no tax. Here is what I did.

1. I insured the bike under my name.
2. I taxed my bike online (had to wait a day or 2 after I insured the bike)
3. I printed out the confirmation of road tax paid and kept this on me at all times.
4. I picked the bike up, paid the money and got the V5 new keeper supplement.

I now had all the documents on me whilst riding it (the only thing being the tax disc that was showing was out of date) and simply picked the new tax disc up from the guy I bought it off when it arrived.

Granted I never got pulled over but I think I was well covered
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Most insurance companies deliver your documents the next day anyway. At least the one's I use have.
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[Polsta]

[alun111]

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[Zenarchy]

[M1ghtyDUck]

What's the fine for not displaying a tax disc?

To be honest I'd just tax it online and chance it. You may be able to blag your way out of it in the unlikely event you do get pulled over, by saying it must've got nicked, or you've taxed it and it hasn't arrived so you physically couldn't display it.

If the worst comes to the worst and you crash and everything gets checked, you'll be taxed and the only thing wrong will be the failure to display.

That is all provided you can tax it online, and it's just an issue of not having the actual tax disc or not.

[Zenarchy]

P.S. If you do use ebike to take out a monthly policy, then it may not show up on the insurance database that the online tax people use, so you'll probably need to go to the post office with the documents. You shouldn't have any problem doing that (as long as you don't mention it's a printout) and if you do, try another post office.

I've done it a couple of times though and they just gave me the tax disk without batting an eyelid.

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