Jacks Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 Going to live in France, hopefully soon. When we return to England after a few months in our English car the road tax will have expired, can anyone advise what to do to remain legal on the road?Thanks, regardsJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 Basically you have 2 choices.1. Re-immatriculate your car on to French plates.2. Send back all your forms for someone to get you the UK tax disc. Mind you the second one is only a guess, beacause I suspect the application for road tax is a little different to when we last needed to purchase it. I think a Guiness label was the most popular "tax disc" I saw in London on my last visit !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 Who is insuring your vehicule, I seem to remember that some people have had problems with a copy of the french insurance forms and the post office not accepting it.You will need to sort this before your return. Also,won't you have a fine awaiting you if it has run out, with the new system in place? My suggestion, ring Swansea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pucette<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Pucette<FONT><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"Qui ne connaît pas la campagne lhiver, ne connaît pas la campagne et ne connaît pas Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 If you are living in France then you should re-register your vehicle in France within three months of arrival. A French-registered vehicle does not need an English tax disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montcigoux Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 If remaining in France follow advice above and register your car in France ASAP no road tax in France. As a first step you will need to contact DVLA to get a car exported certificate. You return your log book to them fist but keep a photocopy. Unless you notify them you will get fined as soon as your UK road tax expires.If you want to keep your car UK registered you will have to change the address on your UK log book to a friend or relative's address. Then when the time comes to re-tax the car send them the insurance cert and MOT cert and the money to do it. This is not strictly kosher and won't work if you have french insurance. Your UK insurance will only cover up to 90 or so days abroad and will need to be the same address as your car registration. Don't forget to note in your diary when the road tax expires as you won't get the reminder and they don't always arrive from DVLA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coral Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 A slightly different situation but.....I had to leave my car in the UK and would n't be back until 6 months after the road tax had run out. I sent the form to the DVLA filling in the appropriate section about it not being on the road. Didn't have to pay. One month before I came back a friend went to the PO with the insurance and MOT certs plus cheque and by the time I got back it had the road tax cert in the corner of the windscreen.Whether you could do the same while driving around France and get the tax cert sent to you so it is quite happily on display when you drive back................who knows? Coral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David584 Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 One can always check the DVLA site here http://www.dvla.gov.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 The official DVLA line is that you should get an export certificate as soon as you arrive in France, if you intend to stay here, and re-register the vehicle. As you cannot tax an exported vehicle you cannot, technically, legally return with it to UK until it is re-registered. Although our (true) explanation that the vehicle was exported and going through French reimmatriculation bureaucracy was accepted in UK on one occasion a while ago, I suspect a more pedantic policeman might take a different view now and in case of accident you could well be in a dodgy situation insurance-wise. Even if you keep up your UK road tax, insurers looking for a way to avoid paying out a claim could refuse if they found out that the vehicle was normally kept at a different place from its registered address given on the insurance documents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacks Posted October 26, 2004 Author Share Posted October 26, 2004 Thanks for all your replies. Sorry I should have said, we are only taking the car to France until about April and then bringing it back to England to sell it. We will then buy a car in France.Thanks, regardsJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddie Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 Had similar problem - got in touch with DVLA and they said I could buy tax disk in advance if supported by written explanation. In the end it was easier to reregister in France as I was keeping the car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me0wp00 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 My hubby used our french insurance documentation on his return to the uk to tax a car, the post office said as long as they can see its the correct car and the dates are right they have to accept it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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