Quote Originally Posted by eamo View Post
That’s not quite true. A friend of mine bought a Uk reg 8 series last year which had been in the country a while. He had to pay a penalty. The penalty was based on the amount of time the car was last taxed in the UK (it had expired 4 months previous to him buying it) and when he brought it in to pay the VRT
if he has letter with date he bought it ,and if this date is not date as tax expired ,how they can prove this? so if somebody will buy car from - shed , few years out of tax ? how they can give it few years penalty ?