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Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it
When your vehicle has reached the end of its usefulness, you must get it…
Find an authorised treatment facility (ATF) where your vehicle can be…
When you make an insurance claim because your vehicle is damaged, your…
How councils and national park authorities should deal with the removal of abandoned vehicles from land in the open air and roads.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle
Find an authorised scrapyard where you can take your vehicle to be scrapped
Get help to classify various types of vehicles such as mobility scooters, dumpers and utility vehicles, all-terrain vehicles and e-bikes for import and export.
Report a manufacturer or a dealer for making or selling new vehicles, vehicle parts and vehicle accessories with safety problems.
How to account for VAT on vehicles and fuel you use for your business.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
You can report an abandoned vehicle like a dumped car to the local council
CMA provisionally clears Copart’s completed purchase of Hills Motors following new evidence
How and when you can seize a vehicle to investigate a waste crime.
If you buy or sell second-hand vehicles, find out how other products and circumstances affect the scheme and how you account for VAT. (VAT Notice 718)
If you buy second-hand vehicles, find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718/1).
Providing advice on purchasing a repaired ‘written off’ vehicle and what you should know.
If you sell second-hand vehicles, find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718/1).
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Find out which motor vehicles you can and cannot claim a payment for using the scheme.
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