Tachograph charts showed both vehicles had been used before the date the tax would run from
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the tax to run from a later date, certifying that the vehicles had not been used on the public road between the two dates. But tachograph charts showed both vehicles had been used before the date the tax would run from.
Northover said the company had initially leased the two vehicles concerned and because they were being hired on a day-m-day basis he had assumed that they were properly taxed. The company subsequently bought one of the vehicles and took the other on long term lease. Northover had been distracted at the time because the company was moving and his wife had a medical problem.
He denied that he knew the vehicles were untaxed when he applied to re-tax them. He said he had never looked in the windscreens. The yard was large and the vehicles were not necessarily He agreed he was saying that he had taxed the vehicles blindly without knowing what the previous tax liability was. There had been no intention to mislead: having agreed a figure to purchase the vehicles, he had assumed the leasing company would cease the tax.
Maintaining that the statements made in the application forms were false. Heaton said the vehicles had been in daily use, in one case from February when Northover wanted the tax to run from the beginning of May, and in the other from at least the beginning of July when he wanted the tax to run from September.