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• Apply for vehicle tax in advance

  Tax your vehicle up to 2 months in advance if it's due to run out while you're away from home
• Tax your vehicle without a vehicle tax reminder

  Renew or get vehicle tax if you do not have your reminder letter (V11), email or text message - renew online or at the Post Office with your V5C.
• Historic (classic) vehicles: MOT and vehicle tax

  Vehicle tax exemptions and MOT exemptions for vehicles built or first registered before 1984.

  • Eligibility

    The date your vehicle was built or first registered affects whether you…

  • Historic vehicle tax exemption

    You can apply to stop paying for vehicle tax from 1 April 2025 if your…

  • Apply for a vehicle tax exemption

    Apply at a Post Office that deals with vehicle tax. You need to take: the…

  • Renewing your historic vehicle's vehicle tax

    DVLA will send you a vehicle tax reminder letter before your tax is due to…

• Tax your vehicle

  Renew or tax your vehicle for the first time using a reminder letter, your log book or the green 'new keeper' slip - and how to tax if you do not have any documents
• Vehicle tax Direct Debit payments

  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
• Vehicle tax rates

  Tables showing the rates for vehicle tax for different types of vehicle.
• When you need to make a SORN

  How and when to make a SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification) to stop taxing and insuring your vehicle, including when the SORN is valid, penalties and rules for motor traders.
• Bringing a Ukrainian vehicle into the UK – tax and registration

  Vehicle tax and registration rules for people with a Ukrainian plated vehicle who have been issued a visa on the Family, Sponsor or Extension Ukraine visa schemes, or the Ukraine Permission Extension visa scheme.

  • Updated: 21 February 2025
• Vehicle tax for cars registered from 1 April 2017

  The way vehicle tax is calculated is different for cars that were first registered with DVLA from 1 April 2017.

  • Updated: 14 May 2021
• Getting an MOT

  When you need an MOT for your vehicle, what it costs, what happens if your vehicle fails, and how to get mistakes on the MOT certificate fixed.