Another SORN question

[sparkythecat]

This may have been covered before but indulge me if you would.

In the last few days I've acquired a cheap vehicle off a relative, which has a 9 months MOT and more than 2 months tax remaining.
I won't be using it for a couple of months and it will be kept off the road. Therefore in order to comply with the continuous insurance regulations, it needs to be the subject of a SORN.

Now, as I understand it my relative as the current registered keeper can apply for the SORN and also claim back the unused 2 months tax which is fine, but according to DVLA form V14, only if he has not "..recently sold transferred or exported the vehicle"

So in order to avoid the 2 months VEL being snaffled by DVLA, which is what I assume will happen, should we delay the transfer of title until his refund cheque arrives?

[TooMany2cvs]

No, just give it a few days to get in the system. The reason they say not to reclaim tax if there's been a recent change of keeper is to prevent them sending the money to the previous keeper.

Oh, and don't forget that SORN expires on a change of keeper...

[av185]

Could do, if you trust he won't do a bunk with the refund money...

Or

Because only June and July 'tax' will be refunded, change ownership of the car now into your name with the v5c which should happen in the next two weeks and on the 31st May post off the tax disc and you will get the 2 months refund.....

[sparkythecat]

av185 said:

Could do, if you trust he won't do a bunk with the refund money...

Or

Because only June and July 'tax' will be refunded, change ownership of the car now into your name with the v5c which should happen in the next two weeks and on the 31st May post off the tax disc and you will get the 2 months refund.....

I'm really not bothered which one of us gets the refund,as long as one of us does, but as things stand the car isn't currently insured - it lapsed a week ago, so it really needs to be SORNed asap otherwise the RK will start getting grief.