Buying a car on SORN
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Patrick Bateman

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205 months

Saturday 6th April 2013
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So if I decide to buy the car I need to go to the post office to tax the car with the V5, MOT cert and insurance.

My question is, as the buyer, obviously the V5 is not in my name and it would be my name on the insurance. Do they have to match for the purposes of taxing the car?

Also, I'd be wanting to add the car as a temporary car on my current policy until I could sell my current car, is that sufficient for taxing the car? i.e. it doesn't require a whole policy unto itself as long as there is insurance on the car?