Retaxing a SORN car

[25v6turbo]

My Safrane is on a SORN at the momentWhen is the earliest i can tax it to start on April 1st??Someone has told me i can,t until the first day,can i not tax it in March to start April the first??

[wuvvum]

I seem to recall it's three days before the end of the previous month, but they might have changed the rules since I was last in that situation.

[trigger]

You can't do it until the 1st online but if you go into your local post office 2 days before the end of the month with your v5, insurance and mot they will be able to do it there.I had to do this last month.

[Andrew353w]

The Budget this year is on 24th March. If the Chancellor raises vehicle excise duty in the budget it goes up the next day, even though parliament hasn't voted the budget through! With this in mind you could save yourself a few quid by nipping off to the post office on the afternoon of the budget and buying your tax at the old rate. You'll have to pay for March, as opposed to starting your tax on 1st April but it's a factor to bear in mind, as from then on you'll be renewing your tax just before any increase in any future budget.For those of you who wanted to know this, the rate of excise duty on fuel is altered from 6pm on the day of the budget. For that reason the manager of the garage where I learnt my trade ALWAYS ordered a full tanker load on the day of the budget knowing full well the tanker would leave Plymouth (the Jet/Conoco depot) mid afternoon.... Clearly a canny businessman!

[retrogeezer]

what happens if you already have your car tax renewal form?? Mine is due on the bluey at the end of the month..

[chester drawers]

You can't do it until the 1st online but if you go into your local post office 2 days before the end of the month with your v5, insurance and mot they will be able to do it there.I had to do this last month.

+1 I'd downloaded and completed a V10 for mine too, but the PO said they didn't need it.Saturdays count as one of the two days, but Sundays don't (though that's not an issue this month).

[Richard]

what happens if you already have your car tax renewal form?? Mine is due on the bluey at the end of the month..

You can tax your car much earlier if the car is currently taxed. I can't remember how much earlier (15th?) but it should say somewhere on your renewal form.

[trigger]

If it's already taxed and your renewing it online using your renewal form then you can do it a month before.

[nigel bickle]

If its already taxed - 5th of the preceeding month (govtgetyour money nice n' early)If its untaxed/sorn'd whatever-1st of the applicable month. Sometimes you can do it manually at P.O a day or so before - dependant on when 1st falls in the week.I doubt tax & fuel duty will go up this budget (-at least not till after the election). Hardly a vote winner in a blatant electioneering budget--is it!

[retrogeezer]

I thought it was a couple of weeks earlier if you already had tax. I just wondered about if it goes up in the budget do i have to pay the increased amount or the amount that is on the renewal slip?

[504GL]

I thought the new tax rates have already been declared? My 500 goes down to £30 as of april for a years tax.

[Mr Lobster]

^ Didn't realise they were changing tbh. That probably means my SEAT will go up from the £215 a year i'm already getting stung for

[504GL]

^ Didn't realise they were changing tbh. That probably means my SEAT will go up from the £215 a year i'm already getting stung for

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/Ow ... /DG_172916

[Mr Lobster]

Ta for the link!SEAT goes up to £245, big smokey diesel Sprinter goes up to £200.Not GR8 at all.

[dollywobbler]

I thought it was a couple of weeks earlier if you already had tax. I just wondered about if it goes up in the budget do i have to pay the increased amount or the amount that is on the renewal slip?

If it goes up in the budget, that amount is what you have to pay, not what's on the renewal slip. I'd better renew the tax on the 2CV which is up at the end of the month. Election or not, you never know what the crafty buggers are going to do.

[FredTransit]

Ta for the link!SEAT goes up to £245, big smokey diesel Sprinter goes up to £200.Not GR8 at all.

bloody ell, what year's your SEAT?

[504GL]

Ta for the link!SEAT goes up to £245, big smokey diesel Sprinter goes up to £200.Not GR8 at all.

It's all a bit silly really. My 500 hugs the trees as it goes past so it's £30 a YEAR yet the Subaru which does a crapload less mileage (which of course means less pollution) is £205. Now I'm not going to complain too loudly because I'm getting a good deal by having to pay £30 a year but surely just putting the tax on fuel would be more fair because the more you use the roads the more you pay and the more fuel efficient your car is, the less you pay.

[pogweasel]

What I do not understand is how vehicles with the same power units finish up in wildly different 'emmissions bands'...For example a Micra 1.5dci costs £35 a year in tax. My van which has the same engine, same output: £180.

[504GL]

What I do not understand is how vehicles with the same power units finish up in wildly different 'emmissions bands'...For example a Micra 1.5dci costs £35 a year in tax. My van which has the same engine, same output: £180.

It's the CO2 output.

[pogweasel]

Yes, but HOW does the co2 output change so by simply fitting the engine, gearbox, and electronickery gubbings into a different body style?

[Mr Lobster]

What I do not understand is how vehicles with the same power units finish up in wildly different 'emmissions bands'...

 

For example a Micra 1.5dci costs £35 a year in tax. My van which has the same engine, same output: £180.

Commercial vehicles that are not Euro 4 compliant are taxed at a flat rate rather than by CO2 output - £180 which increases to £200 from April. Or somefink.

 

So the difference is purely because its a van.

 

bloody ell, what year's your SEAT?

2004, 1.8 Turbo. Ho hum I suppose.

[504GL]

Yes, but HOW does the co2 output change so by simply fitting the engine, gearbox, and electronickery gubbings into a different body style?

The heavier the car the more CO2. CO2 per km/mile pretty has a pretty much direct relationship to fuel consumption.

[504GL]

2004, 1.8 Turbo. Ho hum I suppose.

I'd gladly pay that extra money to have a luvverly turbo engine in my car. Though I don't want the extra fuel consumption

[garbaldy]

I doubt tax & fuel duty will go up this budget (-at least not till after the election). Hardly a vote winner in a blatant electioneering budget--is it!

no your probably right it wont go up this budget but why oh why has it already gone up diesel from 112.9 to 119.9 and thats supermarket price

[garbaldy]

Yes, but HOW does the co2 output change so by simply fitting the engine, gearbox, and electronickery gubbings into a different body style?

thats not the way you should be looking at it the reason is that vans are supposed to do starshp milages so the goberment tax them for that but if you buy a gas guzling pickup truck then the tax is the same as your wee 1500cc van go figure that will be the reason you see loads off the warriors and the likes tooting around with familys in them lot cheeper to tax than a discovery.

[25v6turbo]

Right,my 1994 V6(3.0)Safrane isn,t taxed,how much would 6 months cost if i tax it now(and loose March)And how much if i leave it until April 1st(get 6 full months)Looks like £205 for a year from April 1st? but what about 6 months?

[504GL]

Right,my 1994 V6(3.0)Safrane isn,t taxed,how much would 6 months cost if i tax it now(and loose March)And how much if i leave it until April 1st(get 6 full months)Looks like £205 for a year from April 1st? but what about 6 months?

Well the wifes car which will be in the same tax band as it's pre-2001 and a 2l is 6 months 104.5012 months 190Which goes up to 6 months 112.7512 months 205Information from parkers so don't shoot me if I'm wrong :)So you're still better off leaving it till the price goes up. £8.25 more but you get a months tax.