Rolling 40 Year Historic Vehicles Exemption announced.

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Rolling 40 Year Historic Vehicles Exemption announced.

Post by Wireless » 19th March 2014 - 5:18pm

Although not within his speech, it's in the fine print of the Budget, along with confirmation of the bands and rates change for this year for Historic Vehicles to 1st January 1974.

Apparently the Rolling Exemption will be inserted into the Finance Bill 2014, which becomes the Finance Act 2015, that will then extend the Historic Vehicles Exemption forward another 12 months every 1st April.

So next year, all 1974 built vehicles will be Historic, and so on each year, this means for example that my Late Bay becomes an Historic Vehicle on 1st April 2017, as it was built in 1976.

Good news chaps and chapesses...
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Re: Rolling 40 Year Historic Vehicles Exemption announced.

Post by shawn71 » 19th March 2014 - 7:17pm

So only another few years for our late bay reaches exemption and we don't have any car tax to pay :) ...providing they don't introduce any of the crazy ideas of restricting usage
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Re: Rolling 40 Year Historic Vehicles Exemption announced.

Post by 937carrera » 19th March 2014 - 8:35pm

Here's a link to the announcement / impact statement

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... c-vehicles

This is going to save me a whole lot of hassle taxing / cashing in road tax for my classics, the 412 being the first to benefit :D

Let's hope the application process proves as simple as it should be.

I understand that as the regulations refer to "construction date" the DVLA will automatically accept that any car first registered before 7th January in any year must have been constructed in the previous year.
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Re: Rolling 40 Year Historic Vehicles Exemption announced.

Post by Chino » 20th March 2014 - 10:25am

When I emailed the DVLA last week they informed me any car registered in 1973 can be reclassified by post offices who can handle tax discs. Apparently they should send off the V5C for you and the DVLA should send back to you a V5C with the classification altered to 'historic'.

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Post by 937carrera » 20th March 2014 - 12:41pm

Well, that's certainly useful to know.

In my case it doesn't help because though my car was constructed in Sept 1973 it was not registered until mid '74. - hence my signature

I need to get organised, just wish the local DVLA office was still open
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Post by Chino » 20th March 2014 - 1:38pm

937carrera wrote:Well, that's certainly useful to know.

In my case it doesn't help because though my car was constructed in Sept 1973 it was not registered until mid '74. - hence my signature

I need to get organised, just wish the local DVLA office was still open
Have you got some documentation to prove the manufacturing date? Maybe VW certificate if you haven't already?

http://automuseum.volkswagen.de/urkunden.html?&L=1

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