Nice little earner!

It was there in the small print, but it's taken a few months before it's become apparent.  It's all to do with car tax and the doing away with the tax disk.  Suppose A has a car which he taxed for a year back in January.  He now decides to sell this car to B, and he does so today  The tax - or what's left of it - no longer transfers with the car.  B has to tax it anew, and as the DVLA only work in complete months, he has to tax it from the beginning of this month.  A can claim a refund for the unused tax he paid, but once again, as the DVLA only works in complete months, he will just get back the tax for the months of June to December.  So A has paid to tax the car for the month of May, and so has B!  Like I say - nice little earner.  The answer of course is for the DVLA to switch to working in days rather than months - but think of all that lovely lolly they'd lose!