Check your car tax.

[Bollindger]

My friend put her car as SORN for one night , then Taxed it the next morning to get it for £35 for a year and beat the tax rise.
She heard it from a friend who heard theirs was going up by a lot!
Seems you only have a few days left to do this.
Would others do this or are going to?

You don’t have to sorn it. My tax on my electric car was due in September but I taxed it early to get it free until next march. You just need the V5 certificate

As far as I can tell the VED changes in April are based on the first year rate that you pay when new, so can’t see how going through some convoluted SORN thing is going to save anything?

Thanks for flagging this, the 1 April implementation date had passed me by somehow. I am a bit confused about how to check what the new tax will be and when I need to pay it.

I don't pay any tax on my car at the moment, and the current tax was originally due to expire in August. It's a 2013 model.

If I've understood correctly, the new tax will be £20 per year but I haven't found anything where I can enter my reg number to check this. Do I need to do anything before my existing tax expires?

"car tax" was abolished in 1937.

I'm going to pay the tax because tax is the subscription we pay to live in a community.

Agree. What good will mass tax evasion do?

How did sorning her car and taxing it the next day mean she ‘beat’ a tax rise?

Agree

I stand corrected having checked as the rate for electric vehicles registered between 1st April 2017 and 31st March 2025 will now go to £195, so you can renew now for another year now to hold it off

Don’t know what sorning means. Paid my £35 VED on my car yesterday.

SORN is statutory off road notice. You shoukd SORN a car if you stop driving it and you have somewhere to park it which isn't on a public road.

I did the same.

Whoops, if you want to be pedantic then at least get it right! You’re thinking of the road fund. Car tax aka Vehicle Exise Duty very much exists!

I asked my friend why.
She said by SORN it she stopped this year's and restarted it the next day from March 1st. So she gave up the 2 months left, and saved £150ish as hers was going to be one of the cars that rose to £195...

Yawn

There's always at least one who thinks that they are so clever.... "oh its not a car tax" well you cant drive on the roads without it, so yes it may not be a tax - but it is really

Ah that makes sense! I’m looking into mine just now, thank you!

Can somebody please spoon feed me?

I haven't been very well and I can't focus on looking it all up at the moment. Does this affect 2015 petrol cars?

TIA

As is petrol and 2015 still based on ‘normal’ bands of CO2, so only a slight inflationary increase

Here's the pedant of the day award 🏆

Thank you so much🌷🌷

You don't need to SORN it. It comes up with a warning that the car already has a valid tax on it and checks if you want to go ahead, which you can. All you need is your V5 document, which has the code on it that they ask for.

This tip was put out on the moneysavingexpert weekly email a month or so ago now.

It happened 88 years ago, why persist in using the term?