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You may not have to pay vehicle tax if you’re a driver with a disability
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.
Buy a vehicle - how to check you’re not buying a stolen vehicle. Registering, taxing and insuring your vehicle.
Vehicle tax exemptions and MOT exemptions for vehicles built or first registered before 1984.
You should use form V55/5 to register a used vehicle.
Application form (V890) to register your vehicle as being off the road, also called a SORN.
Get a private number plate for your vehicle - buy a number plate, transfer a number plate
Use a V888 form to apply for information from DVLA's vehicle records.
Taking your car out of the UK - when VAT is not payable on a car you're exporting, procedures, registration and vehicle tax.
Importing vehicles into the UK - register imported vehicles, GB conversion IVA scheme, type approval, vehicle excise duty and VAT
Application form for vehicle tax (V10) and guidance on how to fill in the form.
Find an authorised scrapyard where you can take your vehicle to be scrapped
Rules for tinted vehicle windows and what could happen if you break the rules
Declare exemption from MOT.
Tell the police and your insurance company if your vehicle has been stolen straight away - telling DVLA, vehicle tax refunds and personalised registration numbers
How to display number or licence plates, get plates made up, replace lost, damaged or stolen plates, and the national letters, flags and symbols you can display.
Trade licence plates - who can use them, when they can be used and how to get a trade licence
Find out how much you have to pay and where you have to collect your vehicle from if it's been clamped or impounded
Explanations of the different terms you might see on your driving licence
Check how to get an annual test (MOT) for a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or public service vehicle (PSV) - how to book the test, prepare the vehicle and documents and the test result.
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