Tax Free...

[Boggert]

So how old does a vehicle have to be to be tax free??

May seem like a silly question but I just don't know. :lol:

[carls200tdi]

the vehicle has to be made or registered before 31st december 1972 we have a 1973 beetle which just misses out

[JumboBeef]

Manufactured (not registered) before 31st Dec 1972

[JumboBeef]

the vehicle has to be made or registered before 31st december 1972 we have a 1973 beetle which just misses out

It can be registered any time, it is the manufacturing date which is the important bit.

[carls200tdi]

our beetle still misses out by about a month was always told made or registered which is more or less the same

[JumboBeef]

Registration date doesn't come in to it all ~ it is tax free if it was manufactured pre-73.

[JumboBeef]

Just looked it up.  Look at the last six digits of your Beetle chassis number to see if you can get free tax. See here.

[JumboBeef]

our beetle still misses out by about a month was always told made or registered which is more or less the same

Don't forget old ex-MOD Landys can be manufactured in one year, used by the MOD for a dozen or so years and then registered when released out of the MOD.  So you find lots of ex-MOD Landys registered in the late 70's or early 80's which are tax free.

[Niel]

So how old does a vehicle have to be to be tax free??

May seem like a silly question but I just don't know. :lol:

It depends of where in Europe you are, here it was fixed at 72/3 ish, most of the rest of europe kept the rolling 25 years old....

[graham]

My lightweight is tax exempt  :D

[joe90]

SO how can i find out if mine is tax free. Got a 1979 ex MoD series 3 First registered in 1999 on a civvi plate to me after it was de-mobbed!

[graham]

As said further up Dec 31st 1978 was the cut off date.

[Hangover]

SO how can i find out if mine is tax free. Got a 1979 ex MoD series 3 First registered in 1999 on a civvi plate to me after it was de-mobbed!

You contact the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon,they can tell you the date of manufacture in exchange for some money,it'll have to be pre 1972 ish though.

[Range Rover Blues]

If your car was registered in Jan 1973 then usually they accepted it, as not many car workers were in over christmas :lol:

Otherwise some sort of proof it was built before the end on December 1972, like a letter from an owner's club they recognise or in the case of a LR product something from Gaydon.

[hobbit]

Dont forget vehicles can be manufactured well before they are actually registered, they only get their reg when sold normally

A lot of the vehicles made abroad may have been sitting months or longer before they get sold

When i did some trade plate delivering, Ford dealerships back int he 80s were recieving P100 (cortina pickups) from South Africa, up to 18 months after they were made, they were left coated in preservative and bake in the sun for ages