Tax Disc

Apologies if it's been covered before......

Taxed my bike online on Tuesday, am I legal to ride my bike if it doesn't come through in the post today?

Failure to display etc....

Cheers

 

If you choose to drive your vehicle on a road without displaying a valid tax disc then you commit an offence and risk getting fined.

However there is a 14 day exemption from committing the offence of failing to display a valid tax disc upon renewal. The exemption will only apply in the month when the tax disc commences and where an application for a new tax disc has been made before the old one expires. Drivers should continue to display the previous tax disc until the new one arrives. After 14 days the offence will be committed if the new tax disc is not displayed.

Use this for all your "oh sh*t, am I gonna go to jail questions! "

https://www.askthe.police.uk

 

AFAIK, tax discs don't need to be displayed any more. I think it changed earlier this year

 

Not sure about the effective date, seems like it could be later this year...
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/direct-debit-and-abolition-of-the-tax-disc

 

I think it all comes down to whether or not the traffic warden or copper/special wants to be a nobber and try to get a few extra quid in the xmas party fund for an "untaxed" motorcycle as they're wandering about.
I just renewed mine for the year but have taken the holder off the bike and put the disc, sealed in clear sticky back plastic, under the pillion seat, so technically, it's on the bike.
As a rule I don't leave my bike un-attended in the "high-street" so to speak.
But, if on the off-chance, some jobsworth did try to stick the old "failure to display" on me then I would argue that they didn't look close enough as it was on display in a location on the bike where it couldn't be stolen by a passing thief, backed up by photographic evidence of the disc in it's holder bolted somewhere like the headstock..

 

You can stop displaying in October this year, until then it all depends on the coppers that stop you

 

I was told if you've paid for it on line and its not come back , you can still use it as its all on record at dvla

 

Well they ain't gonna stop you for no tax if you've paid

I got stopped last month in my van by the old bill, which is fully legal, and they never even looked at the tax disc, just sat in the patrol car and the dispatcher gave all the details of T+T+insurance..

 

Indeed it all depends on the coppers, like I said
I have heard of people still getting a fine for failure to display

 

I have never displayed the tax on my bike since I got it in 2011

 

people still get done for not displaying, I have never been caught speeding either, but its just luck mate

 

A couple of my mates havnt displayed a tax disc on their bikes since 2006, they have been pulled for other things and no one has mentioned the lack of tax disc !!

 

You are fine to drive with tax online no offence ,print off your comp statement I am doing so as we speak taxed on Monday still no tax thru post

 

I have no idea where my TAX discs are... I buy them and must put the un-opened envelopes in my "keeps" draw, along with HMRC letters/fines and bank statemements

 

Me too Gary, got pulled over last year and they didn't even look for a tax disk.. Who wants that big ugly thing on display

 

However there is still a law to display it, I guess most coppers don't give a **** but some might, as I have heard of people still getting fined
It's the same as small plates, some get away with it, some don't

 

Police are lazy ***** I guess, but we will always hear what people got away with, but for everyone that got away with these will be those that didn't