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Riding on road with no road tax for two years!?

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  • terencechung122
    terencechung122 Posts: 11 Forumite
    Woody. wrote: »
    Do you have a full licence? If not is your CBT still valid?

    Yes I have a full car licence and I have just renewed my CBT as well
  • terencechung122
    terencechung122 Posts: 11 Forumite
    spiro wrote: »
    Have you changed the address on your driving licence?

    My advice, based on having no car tax for over a month, is to tax it NOW and then phone the local DVLA office and ask what the back tax is. Then send them a cheque for that amount. If you are lucky that will be the end of it. If not there could be penalties for (a) no road tax and (b) failure to advise of address change.

    No I haven't change my address yet but I will as I am about to move house again. I will bring all my documents to post office later to sort out the tax but I heard that you would need the renewal letter to tax it?
  • terencechung122
    terencechung122 Posts: 11 Forumite
    Deleted_User wrote: »
    £16 a year now for moped tax.

    Got an MOT also?
    Yes I just MOTed it as it has hit its fourth year of registration
  • Trebor16
    Trebor16 Posts: 3,061 Forumite
    terencechung122 wrote: »
    Yes I have a full car licence and I have just renewed my CBT as well

    If you passed your car test after 1st February 2001 you only have to do the CBT once to validate the full moped licence. There is no requirement to complete it again, unless you decide to ride a motorcycle up to 125cc.
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  • spiro
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    terencechung122 wrote: »
    No I haven't change my address yet but I will as I am about to move house again. I will bring all my documents to post office later to sort out the tax but I heard that you would need the renewal letter to tax it?
    Assuming you have the log book you can tax it online.
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  • Trebor16
    Trebor16 Posts: 3,061 Forumite
    spiro wrote: »
    Assuming you have the log book you can tax it online.

    If you do that DVLA will send the tax disc to the address they still have on their system, which the OP has already stated he no longer resides at.
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  • Strider590
    Strider590 Posts: 11,874 Forumite
    What's this bike worth?
    Knowing the DVLA and their fines, it could be cheaper to "loose it".
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  • [Deleted User]
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    DVLA fine for untaxed moped was £40 in 2004. Don't know how much it has gone up now. But like what has already been said, just say you sent the SORN off and that it is not your fault they did not receive it.
  • slyracoon
    slyracoon Posts: 428 Forumite
    terencechung122 wrote: »
    No I haven't change my address yet but I will as I am about to move house again. I will bring all my documents to post office later to sort out the tax but I heard that you would need the renewal letter to tax it?

    You do realise that you can be fined up to £1000 for not updating the address on your license?

    DVLA have probably already sent fines for the lack of tax to your old address. I'm sure that once you tell them your new address they'll be kind enough to resend them along with the £1000 fine for failiure to notifyof address change.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    terencechung122 wrote: »
    Yes I just MOTed it as it has hit its fourth year of registration

    Was that its first MOT?
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