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Buy a vehicle - how to check you’re not buying a stolen vehicle. Registering, taxing and insuring your vehicle.
Find out how to work out the value of a motor vehicle when calculating a payment using the second-hand motor vehicle payment scheme.
If you buy second-hand vehicles, find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718/1).
Check registration, MOT, tax, vehicle identification number and other details to help make sure a used car is not stolen or unsafe
How to account for VAT on vehicles and fuel you use for your business.
VAT for car dealers and members of the motor trade - how to reclaim VAT and what to charge when you sell a vehicle
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)
Find out what records and invoices you need to keep as part of the second-hand motor vehicle payment scheme.
How to register your vehicle and the cost - new registrations, kit cars, rebuilds, radically altered vehicles, old and classic vehicles, vehicle identification numbers, Q plates
Find out how to apply VAT if you're in the taxi and private hire car trade.
Find out how to use the second-hand motor vehicle payment scheme to make a claim on your VAT Return.
Guidance on how to apply for an electric vehicle chargepoint grant if you rent any residential property or own a flat.
What to do when selling a vehicle: your vehicle log book (V5C), submitting the right information to DVLA, private (personalised) registration numbers.
Find out how to use the second-hand motor vehicle payment scheme to make a claim if you are VAT registered in the EU.
Reclaim VAT you've paid on goods and services bought in the UK to use in your business if you’re registered as a business outside the UK.
How to apply for funding for plug-in vehicles as a car manufacturer or dealership.
Type approval, individual (IVA), motorcycle single vehicle approval, voluntary approval, certificate of initial fitness, accessibility approval, fees, forms, replacement certificates
Find out how to apply for VAT relief on adapted motor vehicles, if you’re eligible to buy these vehicles and the evidence you need to supply them.
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