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Tell the police and your insurance company if your vehicle has been stolen straight away - telling DVLA, vehicle tax refunds and personalised registration numbers

• Report your vehicle as stolen

  Tell the police and your insurance company straight away if your vehicle…

• Get a vehicle tax refund

  Your vehicle tax will be cancelled by DVLA once you tell them you no…

• If you had a private (personalised) registration number

  Apply to keep your private (personalised) registration number as soon as…

What to do if your vehicle, vehicle part or accessory is recalled, has a registered fault and how to report serious safety defect you find

• Overview

  You need to get your vehicle, vehicle parts and accessories fixed or…

• Recalled vehicles, parts and accessories

  If your vehicle is recalled for a safety reason, you’ll usually be sent a…

• Report a serious safety defect

  If you find a serious defect that affects the safety of your vehicle, one…

• Faults with vehicles, parts and accessories

  Faults in the way vehicles, vehicle parts and accessories are designed or…

Find out how much you have to pay and where you have to collect your vehicle from if it's been clamped or impounded

Find out how to report employee or director car benefits to HMRC where car and fuel benefits are payrolled.

• Updated: 6 April 2020

Get a goods movement reference to move goods through locations which use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.

• Updated: 1 September 2025

How to register your vehicle and the cost: including new registrations, kit-built vehicles, repairs and restorations, and structural modifications.

Taking your car out of the UK - when VAT is not payable on a car you're exporting, procedures, registration and vehicle tax.

Steps you must follow when importing vehicles into the UK, including making an import declaration, paying VAT and duty and telling HMRC using the NOVA service.

Set up, change or cancel your car tax Direct Debit, swap to another payment method, and what to do if you miss a Direct Debit payment

Your vehicle tax is cancelled and you get a refund for any full months of remaining tax when you tell DVLA you no longer have the vehicle or it's off the road