Historic road tax classification
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My Mk1 just turned 40, so it should now qualify as a historic vehicle i.e., no road tax to pay. According to the DVLA website all I have to do is pop along to my local post office with my log book and MOT and they will sort it out. However, this does not seem to be the case. I have been to 2 post offices and neither were able to do it. They said that they can only change it to a disability class and that I had to send my logbook to the DVLA.
Does anyone have any experience of this and can offer any advice?
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Have a read of this.
Historic (classic) vehicles: MOT and vehicle tax: Apply for a vehicle tax exemption - GOV.UK
1988 Mk1 Golf GTi Cabriolet 1.8cc DX, K-jet. Daily drive. 317,000 miles and counting
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If your car was registered is October 1983 you will be tax exempt in April 2024, then you can go to the post office.
(Note if your car was regsitered Jan -April you still have to wait to the following April)
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1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
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If your car is registered before the 8th Jan and you don't know the build date they will give you the benefit of the doubt that it must have been built the year before, good of them.
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In end I posted off to dvla with change to historic class for the taxation with the V112 and covering letter
See what happens 🤷🏼♂️
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adolf said
This exact same thing happened to me yesterday at the post office - couldn't do it they scanned the bar code on my V5c - I took in V112 form too exempt from MoT.
In end I posted off to dvla with change to historic class for the taxation with the V112 and covering letter
See what happens 🤷🏼♂️
What date was yours registered or built?
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I've had an MOT check done which it passed with a couple of small advisories.
See what DVLA comes back with
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Not that it matters, might not even be driving by then as the cars in a thousand bits at the moment!
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bacardincoke said
Not that it matters, might not even be driving by then as the cars in a thousand bits at the moment!
Typical winter Jigsaw syndrome usually over on this side.
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golfy1 said
Look at this website to do it all by post and online, you don't have to go to a post office. I used this info to change the tax category on my RS2000
Applying for Tax Exemption | The Rover P6 Club
I can get to the site OK, but it doesn't give any details regarding changing the Tax class. It just says. 'This page doesnt seem to exist. It looks like the link pointing here was faulty…' I tried searching in the search box there but no joy.
Golfy1 please can you try another way to post that info.
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adolf said
This exact same thing happened to me yesterday at the post office - couldn't do it they scanned the bar code on my V5c - I took in V112 form too exempt from MoT.
In end I posted off to dvla with change to historic class for the taxation with the V112 and covering letter
See what happens 🤷🏼♂️
Thanks adolf, Please can you keep everyone updated here when you get a response.Cheers
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