Road Tax Confusion

sheilamoose

Our road tax expired end June 2020; however we MOT'd our car as usual on 4 June. We have not received any 'reminder' about Road Tax, so was it due end of June, or do we still get 6 months 'grace', as if we had not bothered to MOT it? Can't find answer to this anywhere & want to stay 'on right side of the law'. Any ideas on this?

Alter_ego

only the MOT was extended, pay the tax quick!

neilmcl

There is no 6 months "grace" for vehicle tax, the 6 month extension applied to your MOT only. You need to tax your car.

molerat

Look here

https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax

Don't rely on the reminders in future.  Get it taxed quick and you will be OK.

angrycrow

If you pay your ved online by direct debit it will have automatically renewed. They don't send a paper confirmation out just a single email confirming renewal. The email could have gone into your spam folder. Use the link in the post above to check if your car has valid ved on it now. 

sheilamoose

Haven't received a reminder (as usual) with online code. It's registered Disabled, so presumably husband will have to go to Post Office with V5 to get it taxed, with my PIP exemption certificate?

sheilamoose

This MOT extension is the thing I don't understand... If your MOT runs out during the 6 month 'extension' and that overlaps with your road tax, then you do not get a 6 month extension! Then there is the question of Insurance... don't you have to be in possession of a valid MOT in order to insure your car?

littleboo

The MoT and tax are two completely different things and quite possibly unrelated in terms of renewal month. You don't need an MoT to insure a car, but you do need an MoT to drive a car on the public roads.

AdrianC

sheilamoose said:

This MOT extension is the thing I don't understand... If your MOT runs out during the 6 month 'extension' and that overlaps with your road tax, then you do not get a 6 month extension!

Eh? The MOT extension is a very simple question of six months being added to the expiry of any MOT that ran out after the end of March and before the end of this month. It's applied automatically a few days before the expiry. Tax is irrelevant - except that you can't tax a car without an MOT valid at the time of the tax starting.

Then there is the question of Insurance... don't you have to be in possession of a valid MOT in order to insure your car?

No. You can insure a pile of parts in the corner of a garage.

Aretnap

sheilamoose said:

This MOT extension is the thing I don't understand... If your MOT runs out during the 6 month 'extension' and that overlaps with your road tax, then you do not get a 6 month extension! Then there is the question of Insurance... don't you have to be in possession of a valid MOT in order to insure your car?

What don't you understand? If your MOT was scheduled to run out in April or later it gets extended by six months. This is for practical reasons as many garages were shut during lock down, so it would have been difficult or impossible for many people to MOT their cars. The extension means that you do still have a valid MOT for an extra six months, so your insurance is unaffected (not that it is usually affected much by an expired MOT certificate anyway).

Tax is separate from MoT and there was no need to extend it - post offices remained open during lock down and the Internet still worked, so there was nothing to stop people taxing their cars as normal. So you still have to tax your car (or Sorn it if it's not on the road). 

molerat

Are you exempt from VED or eligible fro the 50% rate ?  Are you claiming against this vehicle for the first time  or simply renewing the existing ?  If renewing full exemption it can be done on line in the same way as any other car except there is no payment.  You don't need the "on line code" from the V11, you can use the V5 document number.