Selling a car with tax

The car either has to have an active insurance policy in place, or it needs to be SORNd, one or the other.

So if the car you are trying to sell has tax, but you have already cancelled the insurance, you must SORN it and cash in the remainder of the tax.

If you still have an active insurance policy on the car, you can leave the tax on it, and cancel the insurance as soon as the car is sold.

There is no law in place which says you cannot sell a car with tax in the window, but you must abide by the rules above.

Basically, it's illegal to own a taxed but uninsured vehicle. So long as it's insured by you, then you can sell it with as much tax as you like - it's up to the new owner to ensure he has adequate insurance....

EDIT: Too slow - what they said

Ha, I win!

Thanks peeps. :-)

Actually a thought -
Can you SORN without surrendering the tax ? Might be a way around the stupid law if the car is only off the road / awaiting to be sold for a short while.

Paul h

couldn't agree more you either cash the tax back in (and therefore cannot use the car on the road for a test drive) or keep it on and risk a fine but use temp insurance to drive it legally. Either way it's a load more ballache to sell a car now than it was before.

It's gonna end up where there are huge amounts of cars for sale at the 1st on the month and none added for the rest as people will won't want to lose part of a months tax.

Matt