Car Taxed and off the road but not SORN?

[ctid]

I've just bought a new car but am still in the process of selling my old one. I've switched my insurance policy over and my old car is sat on my drive taxed but not insured.

When I was switching the policy over, the guy on the end of the phone warned me that the DVLA now fine you if your car is taxed but not insured? Do I have to cash in the tax and declare it SORN? I'm hoping to have it sold in the next couple of weeks and declaring it SORN would complicate things somewhat.

Cheers for any advice

[manic47]

Why would you need to insure it if it's parked off-road?
The closest the DVLA come to that is saying you need insurance to drive a SORN'ed vehicle to a MOT.

[forsure]

There are/were proposals (in the dying days of the last government) to make it compulsory to have insurance on a SORNed car, but the rules haven't changed yet.