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I have just tried to renew my car tax online. The reminder letter from the DVLA states that 12 months tax is £235. I have just gone to renew it online with a one off full payment by card and the site was asking me for £245. Do they charge you an extra £10 for renewing online?

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:
Double check you ended up at the DVLA and not one of the sites that 'do it for you' for a fee,


Chris

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:
from memory, they don't charge extra ... but make sure the site you are using is the correct one as there are several third party sites (which resemble very closely the official one) who can do the deed but add on a fee.

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:

I got charged an extra £10 as well. Pretty sure it was the legit .gov.uk site, as I'd typed in the url rather used a search engine... But who knows?

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:
were you trying to pay with a credit card? the fee is something like 2.5% IIRC, there's no fee for using a debit card.

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:

Credit cards cost more. Debit card is the std price...

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:

I just double checked. It was the correct site. It has a warning saying about changes in the recent budget meaning the cost on the paper work is now out of date.

https://vehicletax.service.gov.uk

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:
I think it is because they changed car tax in the budget. They charge you the rate on the day you renew even if they have already sent a bill with the previous years rate on it.

It may be a government website but whether it is 'legit' is a different question.

In reply to Dave B:

But only £2.50. What looked like an overcharge was circa £12.50

In reply to JLS:

Looks like that could be the explanation. I couldn't find the warning about the cost on paperwork being out of date but the official DVLA site does give the cost as being £245. I also found this link giving the same £245 for cars registered before 2001 and stating the rate applies from 1st April this year:

http://carfueldata.dft.gov.uk/new-vehicle-tax.aspx?t=23ude39

Thanks to everybody who replied.

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:

Yes it's the increase. That'll teach me to pay immediately the letter arrives

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:

did you get any trouble with the other business with the bollard?

In reply to wercat:

No further developments as yet other than the driver not budging from her insistence that I was entirely to blame.

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:

well we all know that isn't true for a start!