Re: Slightly OT - Car Tax

"SteveH" <steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Pinot Grigio" <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I am taking my 156 out of the country for a few weeks.
>> I am leaving before I can get a new tax disc at the PO (I think you can

>> only
>> get it 2 weeks before?)
>> I am returning after the start of the following month.
>>
>> Anyone know how I get a tax disc early?
>
> Do it online and have it posted to your home addess.
>

Do you know how early you can apply and how long it takes to get?  If you 
apply to early (if allowed) do they make you wait?  Had a quick look at
DVLA 
but it doesn't say much, only contact is by phone - done that before and
it 
takes hours...