cjhillman
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1979 Capri (Rolling Project) 1985 Escort mk3 (Daily)
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I have a 1979 Capri and I was thinking in January I can apply for it to be tax exempt (I still want to MOT it) . As of yesterday I found out it was built in June 1979 so it’s already 40 years old. I heard if you could prove the chassis number you could apply and the car already has an MOT till November (although no certificate) do we think this is possible to do it now? Will just wait otherwise
Sorry if this has been answered but I couldn’t find anything about a car on the verge of tax exemption and without having a physical MOt I guess I might struggle ? Can I get the certificate from somewhere ?
Cheers!!
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I don't want to get into the "when can I get free tax" debate but you can get your MOT cert online. Go to www.gov.uk/replacing-lost-damaged-mot-certificate fill in the reg then go to history and providing you have the V5 ref number you can get the certificate |
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Need to wait until next April to get tax exemption, MOT is simply 40 years old ,
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retired with too many projects!
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I heard if you could prove the chassis number you could apply and the car already has an MOT till November (although no certificate) do we think this is possible to do it now? If you can prove that it was manufactured in a year earlier than it was registered, you can apply to the DVLA to have that date added to your V5C, and VED exemption goes on that date. But as the VED exemption is not rolling, it's more like "jumping" as it jumps forward a year on April 1st, just a different part of the same year won't help. As it says on the DVLA web site ( www.gov.uk/historic-vehicles/vehicles-exempt-from-vehicle-tax ) : "You can apply to stop paying for vehicle tax if your vehicle was built before 1 January 1979. You must tax your vehicle even if you do not have to pay. If you do not know when your vehicle was built, but it was first registered before 8 January 1979, you can still apply to stop paying vehicle tax." The DVLA web site only talks about the current situation, so it doesn't mention that on April 1st 2020, that cut-off date will jump forward to 1 January 1980. This is because the rules might change in the meantime. Beware, though, from around 1976 or 1977, the application for new registration contained a box for the dealer to tick, which declares the car new at first registration. If that was ticked, and you now turn up with proof that it actually wasn't new at that point, you stand a good chance of getting a different age-related registration. That might or might not matter, depending on whether you have loads of history with the car or not.  There isn't really any such thing as a proper MOT certificate nowadays, just a receipt for the test with some notes on it. You can get all the information from the DVLA "Check MOT" web site. So your application for exemption, if it were possible yet, wouldn't stand or fall based on not having a certificate. |
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