Car tax/SORN/Insurance

Laurence_Harvey

If a fully  ‘taxed’ and ‘insured’ vehicle is unexpectedly to be  kept off-road on private property for an indeterminate period...and during that indeterminate period the  vehicles insurance expires,... what is the situation with the ‘road-tax’ if the road-tax still has a few weeks/months still to run? 

Can the remaining road-tax on the mothballed  vehicle just be left to run-on after the insurance expires?...or does the  vehicle need to be officially SORN’d from the moment the insurance expires?

Is it an offence to leave a car that is being kept strictly off-road (but not officially SORN'd)  ‘taxed’ for a few weeks or so after the insurance on said car lapses?

Apologies if the question is a bit confusing,...coz I’m a bit confused myself, tbh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

user1977

It's automatically deemed to be (illegally) uninsured when the policy expires, if you haven't SORNed it.

GrumpyDil

Just wondering but if the car is being kept off road I'd just SORN it. There's no limitation on how long it can be SORNed for so you could SORN for a couple of days onwards. Might be implications re car tax if you declare SORN and put it back on the road in a short period but saves concern over any potential issues. 

fimacdoodle

Get your whole months car tax claimed back via gov.uk. they can send you a cheque.
If it is properly private land with no public access , you can keep whatever you want on it.
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GrumpyDil said:

Just wondering but if the car is being kept off road I'd just SORN it. There's no limitation on how long it can be SORNed for so you could SORN for a couple of days onwards. Might be implications re car tax if you declare SORN and put it back on the road in a short period but saves concern over any potential issues. 

If you SORN a vehicle online, you cannot tax it again online for 5 days, but you can tax it at the Post Office.

If you SORN a vehicle, and try and tax it again in the same calendar month you have to pay for the month again.

Best to SORN it online on the day the insurance runs out. (Do it in office hours though, some DVLA functions don't work at night)

glennevis

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GrumpyDil said:

Just wondering but if the car is being kept off road I'd just SORN it. There's no limitation on how long it can be SORNed for so you could SORN for a couple of days onwards. Might be implications re car tax if you declare SORN and put it back on the road in a short period but saves concern over any potential issues. 

If you SORN a vehicle online, you cannot tax it again online for 5 days, but you can tax it at the Post Office.

If you SORN a vehicle, and try and tax it again in the same calendar month you have to pay for the month again.

Best to SORN it online on the day the insurance runs out. (Do it in office hours though, some DVLA functions don't work at night)

I've SORN'd a vehicle online at 1am. No different to any other time of day. Give them your email address and you get a very quick notification that it's gone through. (DVLA servers don't sleep).