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in Vic, it's three months from memory. our regos are due within 2 weeks of each other - we tend to take one car off the road for a month or so and register it later each year (off setting it by six months puts it due between christmas and new year - not a good time!):
For your next lot of payments, you can go to the post office and get a payment book, this will allow you to put money towards your rego throughout the year so it isn't such a bit payment when it comes time to paying it next time around.
Qld do 6 months of rego for all vehicles, the option is on your bill, which didn't come a few weeks before it is due I might add, they are sent out 6 weeks before your rego due date.
If you don't pay by the date, then you will get hit with an extra amount to pay.
They probably won't give you extensions.
in my state, the rego bill is sent out 6 weeks before it's due to. i save up for the annual bill, every fortnight, so that when it comes around, i have the money ready. A financial counsellor i saw years ago, advised me to do this (save up for annual bills, as they are a known thing, not a surprise, like an unexpected car repair). i am indebted to that person for that advice, it has taken some stress off me.
you get your annual bills, add 10% (to allow for inflation), divide by 26 - and that will tell you how much you need to save up each fortnight, in order to have enough for the annual bill, when it arrives. the best time to start doing it, is when you pay your current bill. i remember it was not easy at the start, but it got easier.
Well I tried to call yesterday and after an hour on hold, on a mobile, I got PO'd and hung up, I might just go there today instead.
I would love to have the money to save anything but our regular bills use about 90% of our income :(. Plus trying to get stuff organised for 2 babies hasn't been cheap either! Usually, because its always been due in August (at least the ute has been, but the new car should have been around then too) we know that its a bill we can use tax money for too, which is why it coming earlier than normal is such a shock.
Its due in...3 weeks from today, so that means it took almost 3 weeks just to get here, from Brisbane! How is that even possible! That should be doable in under a week surely... I'm SO sick of the slow mail here! Our last 3 lots of phone/internet bills have arrived after or on the due date too, its just lucky I know roughly when they're due and can check how much online. The only thing thats arrived well ahead of time is the dog registration - we've got 8 weeks until that one!
I would NOT drive an unregistered car, get caught and your up for around $1000 worth of fines. 'Drive an unregistered vehicle', 'Drive an uninsured car' (no CTP if rego not paid), if they get picky they might also do you for 'drive unroadworthy vehicle' too, and then proceed to write up a list of faults you need to fix.
in QLD the pension discount amount is pathetic, I saved maybe $30.00. Your also only allowed it on ONE vehicle.
There is no such thing as an extension or payment plan. Also, you have something like 6 weeks after rego expires to pay it, or you will have to get a road worth cerificate to register it.
Stupid QLD... found out the other day FIL pays $280 for his V8's rego in Tasmania. Its $393 for a 4 cylinder in QLD... just ridiculous.
We went there today (had to change my name on my license anyway) and asked, and basically the lady said that yeah not a lot you can do, but you have about 60-70 days after the due date before you need a road worthy again, you just can't drive the car that's lapsed.
She suggested what Sop said about the post office thing which we will definitely do after these ones are paid - had I known about that I would've been doing it for years now! I asked the lady why that information wasn't out there very well, or listed as an option on the notices, and she said that it was honestly because they don't like people to know about it because then they don't get as much money in fines for unregistered vehicles :rolleyes: Effing Governments.
So we're going to see if we can get a loan from the bank of MIL for DH's ute and we will live off 2min noodles and unicorn wishes next pay and fork out for the other one. Then set up the post office thing and put what we can away for the next lot and even though it will be Christmas and that will suck at least we will have enough there for it not to be a huge burden.
Starlite - Thats insane! Maybe I should move to Tassie! DH's 4 cylinder 4x4 ute is over $400 just for 6 months! We changed the CTP insurer on it because we noticed the one we had on our other car was like $50 cheaper for a bigger car, so hopefully that will make a difference next time, but its still beyond a joke considering the state of roads and infrastructure in this state.
I wonder if all states do that with th PO?:
Ours is due June 30th but hasn't come yet.
The right govt dept might send them out but it doesn't mean Aus post gets them to you
You'd think they would, I mean Australia post is Australia wide...of course they suck at getting your mail to you! I wonder how long it will be before we can get things like rego bills via email - instant delivery!: