Parked up in the Metrocentre today and saw the car tax avoidance team in full swing, a van full of clamps. There was a metallic grey 2014 GTD being clamped - no-one's here was it?
Puzzlingly, I also saw a 19 plate BMW X5 clamped. How could a car so new be out of tax? The only reasoning for it I could come up with is if it is on at least it's second owner already (sick of it after 4 months?), bought in a private sale from the first owner who got a VED refund for the remainder of their year and the new owner didn't get it taxed. Seen loads of untaxed cars clamped in Tyneside over the last 3 months - the DVLA must be getting sh!t-hot on the issue.
I was once a DVLA fugitive for 6 weeks, I naively thought that having an Audi A1 1.6TDI with £0 VED meant that you did not have to apply to DVLA to pay your £0 for the year, every year.
