New road tax system

[Gollom]

Could not see if the existing threads covered this:

If I am reading the new road tax system correctly, you can effectively tax for a month at a time?


I.e. I have SORN'd Big Gertie (my MH) from the 1st November. But lets say in January I decided to go on a jaunt - I could tax it then for six months, then SORN it again from the 1st February. If I read the new rules correctly, I would be refunded for the "unused" five months. Make sense?


The one thing I am a bit unsure of is if the refund is only if I sell it?

 

[Stratman]

If you do get a refund it will be at the twelve month rate, regardless of how long the tax was for.

 

[Gollom]

If you do get a refund it will be at the twelve month rate, regardless of how long the tax was for.

OK. But that is still beneficial on my case

 

[Druk]

You have to remember to SORN it before the 1st day of the next month otherwise that whole month will be forfeit as well. And when you do sorn it the stupid DVLA website says it's been sorned from the start of the actual month in which you sorn it. Which is very confusing but just to be ignored.

eg. Sorn it on the 30th of Oct for a Nov refund and the website then tells you it has been sorned from OCT...

I regularly tax my 107 for 12mths then cash in 6 when the car goes off the road in Nov. You get a full pro-rata refund.

 

[dinoy]

they charge more for monthly direct debit over 240 pa

 

[paul_c]

You could always have done this in the previous system anyway, except that when SORNing you needed to send the old tax disc (glued or sellotaped to the form) so there was a delay during its posting etc.

Yes in theory it gives you 'monthly' tax, but in practice these need to fall within the calendar month otherwise you'll be paying a full month's rate for a part month, eg if you wanted to tax a car from 15 Jan to 15 Feb, you'd need to pay for the whole of January and you'd not receive a part-month refund if you SORNed it on 15 or 16 Feb so you'd have paid for the whole of February too. And of course it would need to be insured for that period, short-term insurance IMO I've found to be costly.