Taxing a SORN car

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I SORN'd my car on the 01/07/11. To un-SORN I assume you just apply for a new tax disc. I've tried online and for some reason it's not letting me.

Do I need to wait for a confirmation letter from the DVLA with a reference number to be able to tax? The reference no. on both the TAX reminder and on my log book are not working.

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Chicane-UK said:

The car needs to have a valid MOT to get taxed I believe... is the MOT still current or expired?

Car was MOT'ed on the 21st of this month.

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Marlin45 said:

Just walk into your local PO with all the relevant paperwork and ask them to tax it. Job done

The less i need to go the PO the better! Plus I don't actually have all the paperwork, the car is at a garage awaiting pick up. They have serviced and MOT'd her.

I got the guy to email me the MOT reference number, I checked online to make sure it was MOT'ed - Check.

Went to see if i could get tax (like every other time) and now it won't let me.

The only documents i have is my tax reminder (which i used to SORN) and my V5 log book.

Neither reference numbers work on the online DVLA site. Am I missing something?

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Baron Von Alders said:

If you retax this will apply from the beginning of July - can you wait a few days until August?

You can't forward tax if a car is SORN'd

Yes, I will do this. I was just being pro-active to see if I could tax the car now if need be. I didn't want to wait until the day I pick the car up to find I have a problem and can't get tax.

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JM said:

I think you will need to use the V5 log book document reference number, and put in the reg no of the vehicle in the correct boxes, and that should take you to the next page.

Don't know from there, it's worked evertime for me.

Never done a SORNed car before though.

I've tried both reference's and neither are working

Hopefully the confirmation of SORN letter will come through this week, although I wouldn't be surprised if the DVLA haven't sent one out.

If not i'll call them up on Friday and see what i should do. Thought i'd ask you fine people first in case i'm missing something (never SORN'd a car before)

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confused_buyer said:

You can't tax or SORN a car online if its tax status or registered keeper have recently changed.

As it was SORN'd on 1/7/11 it has locked out all further changes. This is to stop V5's, tax discs and various things over lapping.

Go into a Post Office on the 1/8/11 and tax it and it will cancel the SORN. That's the only way to do it.

Ahhh I see. Thank you. As the garage has the MOT cert should i ask them to post it to me?

I guess the PO will want to see valid insurance, MOT cert and maybe V5? Anything else?