Back tax owed on car sold - do the revenue chase for it?

worded

Do the revenue chase the orig owner after its sold (not the new owner)
I presume the new owner starts at 0

colm_mcm

No.

New owner starts from the month they get the vehicle.


You only pay arrears if you are taxing a vehicle where arrears occurred during your current ownership period.

Miscreant

worded wrote: »

Do the revenue chase the orig owner after its sold (not the new owner)
I presume the new owner starts at 0

No. The new owner just pays the tax from the beginning of the month they registered it in their name.

CiniO

AFAIR we once looked for appropriate law here in one of the threads, and turned out that arrears are only becoming due when owner applies for tax for untaxed vehicle.
So technically speaking, it's not unlawful to not tax your vehicle (provided you don't use it in public place), and while it's probably very beneficiary to declare it off the road, if you don't do it and just keep it untaxed you are not committing any offence.
Additionally once you sell/scrap/export such vehicle, motortax office won't chase you for arrears, as there is no law under which you'd be due those arrears unless you make your own decision to tax that vehicle.

I can't find appropriate thread though.

Isambard

but presumably if they could prove it was on the road (speeding ticket for instance) during the untaxed period, they could pursue you theoretically at least.