Disco Tax

Had my Discovery for a few months now, been sitting on the drive while
carrying out all the work, it's now ready for the road, but need to tax it,
got out the reminder to find NIL payment due, this is due to it being
registered as an agricultural machine, good result but how does this stand
under the law,any ideas????? the previous owner used it daily on the road.

Mark

sounds like some VAT is due on it somewhere!! - I would not count on it
being a good result


"murph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Had my Discovery for a few months now, been sitting on the drive while
> carrying out all the work, it's now ready for the road, but need to tax
> it,
> got out the reminder to find NIL payment due, this is due to it being
> registered as an agricultural machine, good result but how does this stand
> under the law,any ideas????? the previous owner used it daily on the road.
>
> Mark
>
>

"StaffBull" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> sounds like some VAT is due on it somewhere!! - I would not count on it
> being a good result
>
>
> "murph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Had my Discovery for a few months now, been sitting on the drive while
> > carrying out all the work, it's now ready for the road, but need to tax
> > it,
> > got out the reminder to find NIL payment due, this is due to it being
> > registered as an agricultural machine, good result but how does this
stand
> > under the law,any ideas????? the previous owner used it daily on the
road.

wunder if its like when its disabled tax and round here u have to go to
Leeds to change it

On or around Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:06:00 GMT, "murph" <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>Had my Discovery for a few months now, been sitting on the drive while
>carrying out all the work, it's now ready for the road, but need to tax it,
>got out the reminder to find NIL payment due, this is due to it being
>registered as an agricultural machine, good result but how does this stand
>under the law,any ideas????? the previous owner used it daily on the road.

yer only allowed to do a few miles a week, not allowed to carry passengers
or cargo...

IIWY I'd re-register it as a PLG.
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"murph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Had my Discovery for a few months now, been sitting on the drive while
> carrying out all the work, it's now ready for the road, but need to tax
it,
> got out the reminder to find NIL payment due, this is due to it being
> registered as an agricultural machine, good result but how does this stand
> under the law,any ideas????? the previous owner used it daily on the road.

What's the classification on the V5 document? If it's "Limited Use", the
following applies:

Tax free
MoT exempt!
Limited to 1.125 miles on a public road in any one use. Once you have done
1.125 miles, you must leave a public road, but you can rejoin again straight
away.

To get a tax disc, you still need to produce a certificate of insurance.

You can change it back to "Private/Light Goods" by filling in the relevant
section on your V5 document and sending it to your local DVLA office (NOT
Swansea or the Post Office).

HTH

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