Rebates on Car Insurance / Road Tax at this time?

skellington

Apologies if this has been asked before, but does anyone know if there are any schemes to receive rebates on their Car Insurance, or have it extended - or Vehicle Tax at this unprecedented time?
I only ask as I have heard many conflicting rumours, and lets face it, we are all at home, and the Government are telling us to not use Cars/Vehicles.
Has anyone heard anything, or is it a case of contacting the DVLA or your Car insurance provider to ask this?

Thanks

fred246

Well Road Tax was abolished in 1937 so it's probably a bit late for refunds.

neilmcl

skellington said:

Apologies if this has been asked before, but does anyone know if there are any schemes to receive rebates on their Car Insurance, or have it extended - or Road Tax at this unprecedented time?
I only ask as I have heard many conflicting rumours, and lets face it, we are all at home, and the Government are telling us to not use Cars/Vehicles.
Has anyone heard anything, or is it a case of contacting the DVLA or your Car insurance provider to ask this?

Thanks

There are no "schemes" to get a refund/rebate on your car insurance/car tax, I've only heard of one company, Admiral, paying customers back £25 but that's the exception. Even if you don't drive the car the law still requires it to be taxed and insured if it's sitting on the road. If you want to stop paying insurance and get a refund of your tax then you'll need to SORN it.

skellington

neilmcl said:

skellington said:

Apologies if this has been asked before, but does anyone know if there are any schemes to receive rebates on their Car Insurance, or have it extended - or Road Tax at this unprecedented time?
I only ask as I have heard many conflicting rumours, and lets face it, we are all at home, and the Government are telling us to not use Cars/Vehicles.
Has anyone heard anything, or is it a case of contacting the DVLA or your Car insurance provider to ask this?

Thanks

There are no "schemes" to get a refund on your car insurance/car tax. Even if you don't drive the car the law still requires it to be taxed and insured if it's sitting on the road. If you want to stop paying insurance and get a refund of your tax then you'll need to SORN it.

Yes understand that, I was asking due to the unprecedented times we are in, and many rumours around, saying that there could be a rebate?

skellington

fred246 said:

Well Road Tax was abolished in 1937 so it's probably a bit late for refunds.

Vehicle Tax

Car_54

skellington said:

I only ask as I have heard many conflicting rumours, and lets face it, we are all at home, and the Government are telling us to not use Cars/Vehicles.
Has anyone heard anything, or is it a case of contacting the DVLA or your Car insurance provider

Well, if you want more conflicting rumours you've come to the right place.

The_Rainmaker

Just get your car off the road declare it SORN and cancel your insurance job done.

skellington

Car_54 said:

skellington said:

I only ask as I have heard many conflicting rumours, and lets face it, we are all at home, and the Government are telling us to not use Cars/Vehicles.
Has anyone heard anything, or is it a case of contacting the DVLA or your Car insurance provider

Well, if you want more conflicting rumours you've come to the right place.

Definitely agree there, with this Forum! 

Herzlos

fred246 said:

Well Road Tax was abolished in 1937 so it's probably a bit late for refunds.

That's the kind of pointless pedantry we need here - good job!

Onto the point; there's no scheme for a rebate on insurance/tax. You need tax if the car leaves your driveway any time in the month and has never been tied to usage. You can SORN it for a whole month and not pay the tax on that month.

For insurance, Admiral are refunding everyone £25 (the average monthly cost), but I'm not sure anyone else is doing the same. You can always phone your insurer and adjust your mileage down to see if it'll make a difference; I imagine someone going from 20k/year down to 2k/year might see a rebate after the admin fee.

skellington

Herzlos said:

fred246 said:

Well Road Tax was abolished in 1937 so it's probably a bit late for refunds.

That's the kind of pointless pedantry we need here - good job!

Onto the point; there's no scheme for a rebate on insurance/tax. You need tax if the car leaves your driveway any time in the month and has never been tied to usage. You can SORN it for a whole month and not pay the tax on that month.

For insurance, Admiral are refunding everyone £25 (the average monthly cost), but I'm not sure anyone else is doing the same. You can always phone your insurer and adjust your mileage down to see if it'll make a difference; I imagine someone going from 20k/year down to 2k/year might see a rebate after the admin fee.

Thank you Herzlos, I will try them also, I know its unprecedented times, and most companies, are still working out how to move forward, and with the rumours going around, I thought i'd ask here too, incase I'd missed anything. Thank you

bob_a_builder

Remember the idea mooted some years ago  of adding the cost of car insurance to the cost of petrol  ( Vehicle Tax too ?)   - Would probably get more traction now ?