Tax/Sorn Question

AdrianC

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

My V5C2 wouldn't work online to SORN my car.

Then it was off a previous V5C, so the wrong docref.

EdGasketTheSecond

unholyangel wrote: »

You can use this form.


Its the only way to do it if the vehicle isn't in your name.

Look I'm afraid you dont know what you are talking about. Have you actually tried to sorn a car not in your name? I have and I can assure you that form does not work with dvla, they just reply with 'only the registered keeper can declare sorn'.

Marvel1

AdrianC wrote: »

Then it was off a previous V5C, so the wrong docref.

https://www.gov.uk/make-a-sorn

Choose when it starts

Immediately
Use the 11-digit number on your vehicle log book (V5C) to take the vehicle off the road immediately.

On the first day of next month
Use the 16-digit number on your vehicle tax reminder letter (V11) to take the vehicle off the road from the first day of next month. You can only use this number once.

If the vehicle isn’t registered in your name you’ll have to tell DVLA it’s off the road by post.

AdrianC

Marvel1 wrote: »

https://www.gov.uk/make-a-sorn

Yes, lovely.

Go to that page.
Click on "Start Now".
You're taken to... https://sorn.service.gov.uk/
Notice what the link just below the V11 ref box says? "I don't have the V11 reminder, just the registration certificate or new keeper supplement". Click on that.
Two radio buttons - "Existing Keeper" and "New keeper (using V5C/2 new keeper supplement document reference number)". Click on that, then the "Continue" button.

And two boxes come up...
"Please type the reference number from the front of your new keeper supplement (V5C/2)" and one for the reg.

See? Eminently possible, and dead easy, from the link you just posted.

Rover_Driver

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Look I'm afraid you dont know what you are talking about. Have you actually tried to sorn a car not in your name? I have and I can assure you that form does not work with dvla, they just reply with 'only the registered keeper can declare sorn'.

If you are not yet the registered keeper, you can declare SORN using form V890, by ticking the relevant box and submitting it with a V5C/V62 form.

Marvel1

AdrianC wrote: »

Yes, lovely.

Go to that page.
Click on "Start Now".
You're taken to... https://sorn.service.gov.uk/
Notice what the link just below the V11 ref box says? "I don't have the V11 reminder, just the registration certificate or new keeper supplement". Click on that.
Two radio buttons - "Existing Keeper" and "New keeper (using V5C/2 new keeper supplement document reference number)". Click on that, then the "Continue" button.

And two boxes come up...
"Please type the reference number from the front of your new keeper supplement (V5C/2)" and one for the reg.

See? Eminently possible, and dead easy, from the link you just posted.

Very misleading from my post, they need to change it.

burtons

AdrianC wrote: »

Yes, lovely.

Go to that page.
Click on "Start Now".
You're taken to... https://sorn.service.gov.uk/
Notice what the link just below the V11 ref box says? "I don't have the V11 reminder, just the registration certificate or new keeper supplement". Click on that.
Two radio buttons - "Existing Keeper" and "New keeper (using V5C/2 new keeper supplement document reference number)". Click on that, then the "Continue" button.

And two boxes come up...
"Please type the reference number from the front of your new keeper supplement (V5C/2)" and one for the reg.

See? Eminently possible, and dead easy, from the link you just posted.

I tried what you posted before asking on here and it don't work. When you put in the details it tells you that DVLA needs to be notified by the previous owner before the car can be sorn.

EdGasketTheSecond

burtons wrote: »

I tried what you posted before asking on here and it don't work. When you put in the details it tells you that DVLA needs to be notified by the previous owner before the car can be sorn.

Exactly! The keyboard warriors on here are spouting hot air and haven't actually tried to do any of what they are suggesting. Yes in theory you can SORN a car by post without a V5 but in practice you cannot unless you are the registered keeper and if you can't achieve that online then you are stuck in limbo for around 5-6 weeks waiting for the RK to be changed over and a new V5 to arrive. In that time you can't declare your car SORN and are completely stuck if that is what you need to do.


When I asked DVLA what about any fines I might get for not having it taxed and insured or SORN'd they told me I'd have to deal with them as I receive them !

Rover_Driver

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Yes in theory you can SORN a car by post without a V5 but in practice you cannot unless you are the registered keeper

You can SORN a car by post if you are not yet the registered keeper without the V5C using form V890, but it needs to be submitted with a completed form V62 (and the necessary fee).

EdGasketTheSecond

Rover_Driver wrote: »

You can SORN a car by post if you are not yet the registered keeper without the V5C using form V890, but it needs to be submitted with a completed form V62 (and the necessary fee).

Have you actually done that?