Right its 2216 at night, just taxing the haynes roadster after it flying through its mot the other day, except i am not becuase the online system wants me to buy a disk that covers the whole of April with it starting on the 1st of April. Now at the post office you can tax it a couple of days in advance for the coming month but unless you have a laser copy of your insurance (All my documentation is done on line) thay are a law unto themselves with accepting documentation etc, so looks like i will have to wait till the morning. God knows how they will cope when its all done online.
The online system works on the basis of continuous tax, so it's actually going back to when the car was last taxed. If you tax it from the
beginning of May, it's going to trigger alarm bells and they may want to know why it wasn't taxed for April.
I paid for my tax online on the 15th of this month, to start at the beginning of May.
[Edited on 30/4/14 by Slimy38]
did mine online other day, it was on sorn, I too thought I had to do it from 1st April, but clicked onto nextpage & was given a choice of !st april or 1st May
I dont think you need to show insurance at the post office anymore as its all computerised, or they dont bother checking it any more just relying on
the continuous insurance tax law thing in place now.
[Edited on 1/5/14 by chrism]
I had exactly the same
My downloaded insurance certificate looks dodgy so i thought ide do it online to save an arguement at the post office
Entered v5 no and it wanted me to go from beginning of april,although its been on sorn throughout winter
It asked to confirm everything was correect so i clicked no
It then cancelled the whole app !!!
15 mins later i had one from the post office,didnt ask for ins or mot 
It's due to SORN and tax running month to month, some people that tax there car few days early at PO off SORN would then use the car in the last few days of April,risking not getting sprung by a ANPR camera as the car is officially SORN till start of May when tax disc starts.
Well I`ve just taxed the Jago on line and it said car not licensed since 1993! It has been in a barn for 20 years and I`ve just spent 12 months
restoring it. I went through the process and taxed it ok. I SORN`d the car last year when I bought it (have e-mail to prove) but it was showing as no
SORN and no licence for 20 years? The on line system as good as it is, is not always accurate!
Nick
I tried to tax dobbie online couple times last week, it kept refusing my card at the visa check page, went up the post office with the renewal form,
the cash and the MOT.
She never looked at the mot, said it wasn't required and that was that.
That's the last time as it all goes disc less later this year, I wonder how that will work out....
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Originally posted by snippy
Well I`ve just taxed the Jago on line and it said car not licensed since 1993! It has been in a barn for 20 years and I`ve just spent 12 months restoring it. I went through the process and taxed it ok. I SORN`d the car last year when I bought it (have e-mail to prove) but it was showing as no SORN and no licence for 20 years? The on line system as good as it is, is not always accurate!
Nick