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Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle

• Updated: 21 December 2022

Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it

• How to scrap your vehicle

  When your vehicle has reached the end of its usefulness, you must get it…

• Where you can scrap your vehicle

  Find an authorised treatment facility (ATF) where your vehicle can be…

• Insurance write-offs

  When you make an insurance claim because your vehicle is damaged, your…

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

• For 12 months or more

  You must tell DVLA if you’re taking your vehicle out of the UK, including…

• For less than 12 months

  What you need to do depends on whether you’re taking: your own vehicle…

• Taxes if you buy a new vehicle to take abroad

  If you buy a new or used vehicle to take out of the UK, you might not have…

Find government-owned property, buildings or land that's available to buy, or contest its use

If you make supplies of second hand goods, works of art or antiques and collectors items you can choose to use this simplified margin scheme to account for VAT.

• Updated: 23 December 2021

The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.

Things to consider when buying and using products.

• Updated: 29 July 2024

Tax and reporting rules for assets bought, sold or given

If you buy second-hand vehicles, find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718/1).

• Updated: 23 December 2021

Buy a private (personalised) number plate, assign it or transfer it to a vehicle - renew or update your entitlement certificate.