DVLA engages webuyanycar.com to contact motorists about tax disc phase out
The DVLA has sought out car valuer and buyer, webuyanycar.com, to help it spread the world about the abolition of the paper tax disc this autumn.
The public/private initiative saw the DVLA approach webuyanycar.com to use its database of the majority of private car owners in the UK to spread the word that the tax disc is going.
Rich Evans, head of technical services for webuyanycar.com, commented: “We were happy to help the DVLA spread the word. There is more than just the phasing out of the disc itself, which has to be explained, car owners need to know vehicle excise duty administration is also changing when it comes to selling and buying a new car.”
From late August webuyanycar.com will be actively contacting its car owner database using mobile, email and social media as part of the first phase of exercise with feedback monitored and shared with the DVLA.
The tax disc will be phased out from 1 October 2014 after almost 94 years. The new regulations mean that the traditional paper disc will no longer need to be displayed, though car owners will still need to pay duty as normal with licence plate recognition cameras being used to detect cars that do not have up to date tax.