woops.

[steveh]

Well was in the shed, sorting some stuff out for the tip, and genral fannying about when i picked up a part of my old bike and went to throw it in the bin, as i looked up there was a tax disc holder, complete with tax and still in date? WTF i thought..... then i realised, id forgoten to put it back on my bike from about a month ago


Anyone else done anything like this, what would i of gotten if i got pulled over?

Cheers, Steve.
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[The#Doctor#]

nothing would have happened if u got pulled jus tell them oh was just on my way 2 renew it they might ask u 2 report 2 a police station within 7 days but probably not

[loply]

When I bought my bike I didnt realise the tax disc wasnt attatched (I bunged it in a drawer with all the other docs).

About 3 months later I started wondering where abouts on the bike it was.
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[Dave-O]

Mine fell off, so when I replaced the holder I just left the disc out as Im not going to pay for a replacement disc when it runs out soon anyway.

I would imagine they could check straight away that its still taxed, as it would be on the system.

[.....]

I had mine nicked when my bike was about a week old. That was back in May. Have never displayed tax and never had any problems.

[CBRnick]

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Hi

Given the charge for a replacement tax disk, it might well be cheaper to just buy a new one.

All the best

Keith
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[Gazdaman]

I forgot to put mine back on for about 3 weeks after I fitted a new front fender, no problems.

I've got a tax disk holder that screws together with allen key bolts, so not real problems with it getting nicked easily.

Gaz

[Darkside]

Straight from a coppers mouth when pulled over "It is no longer a police resposibility to check for vailid tax discs."
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[CBRnick]

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Hi

I to have been told by a neighbour who is in the police (and was traffic police until they scrapped them round here) and he said that the police are no longer interested in a lack of tax disk. If they notice it then they will report it to the DVLA who can deal with it, but the police do not care.

If they are pulling people up then the chances are that they are just being used as hired hands by the DVLA (who themselves would not have the authority to pull people over).

All the best

Keith
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[CBRnick]

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Hi

Except that most people quite happily get away with not displaying it, and the police themselves no longer deal with it so most of the time will not give a damn.

All the best

Keith
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[CBRnick]

Except that the police DO report you if they see no tax displayed.
For the most part it may be true they may not go looking specificaly for tax offences, but make no mistake if you do get seen, you will get reported.

In Sept 04, my two year old CbR was parked in a marked bike parking bay just round the corner from Kingston College, Surrey.

I returned to it from the shopping centre as a pliceman was looking over the two rows of bikes.
As I was putting on my helmet he came over and asked if it was my bike and was I aware that there was no valid tax disc on view.

I told him it had been stolen in the past and to prevent it being stolen again I now caried it with me and produced it from my inside pocket in my leathers. He took it, looked at it and gave it back and told me it was an offence not to display it on my bike in a public place and I was being reported for not having a valid tax disc on display.
*note* The policeman did not nick me, he reported me to the dvla who fined me.

I was fined by the dvla and after a long conversation with a woman on the phone in the dvla office, I discovered that the reason the fine was so high was because my bike had been reported before for not displaying a tax disc (I wasnt aware of this before this phone call). As this was a second time of being reported and I still was not displaying the tax disc the previous offence was taken into consideration.

So regardless of what youve been told by the bloke next door, my own personal expeience and lighter wallet says that your information is wrong. My bike and all the bikes in the bike park had been checked

And I believe its wrong that people post up information saying that nothing will happen if you dont display a valid disc, when the fact is if you get reported for no disc on display, you will get fined for it even if its in your pocket.

The odds may indeed be in your favour that youll get away with it, but its wrong to advise people that nothing will happen.

[daz|n00by]

the police dont nick you for tax they only report you for it afaik,
i have bin done twice over no tax in the past and got of both times by back dating and telling my local tax office as the police cant do you for no tax only for the fact your not displaying a tax disc.
i,m not saying this is the law only from my own experience.
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I once forgot to put my numberplate back on.

Went into town to get some bits, came home and noticed my numberplay still in the living room. Oops.

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There is often a 'tax van' along the A4 from me.

I've been told they give £200 fines!

Easy money for them, though they do seem to need 15 police people and eight to ten vehicles to do this useful work .

[mchaggis]

There could well be a mobile greasy spoon there too, you never know! Just the place for them all to sit about whilst pretending to do proper work.
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[CBRnick]

I got stopped this morning in Hook after coming off the A3 at Ace of Spades. Got a bollocking for doing 35 in a 30 zone but was let off.
After chatting to me guess what the policeman asked me.
'Is your tax disc displayed on the bike?'
I pointed him to the tax disc holder on the nearside fork and he wrote down some of the information on it, and after a PNC check told me to go on my way and pay more attention to the speed limits.

And police dont check tax right ? Wrong.

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