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Historic Vehicles & Tax Law / Vehicle Excise Duty

As part of the Chancellor's Budget in 1998, exemption from Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) for vehicles over 25 years of age will be replaced by exemption for vehicles constructed before 1st January 1973. This replaces the 25 year rolling exemption date. Unless there is another law change, those of you with 1973 cars will always have to pay Road Fund Tax.

Qualifying vehicles constructed before 1st January 1973 and currently licensed in the "25 Year Exempt" taxation class will now be licensed in the new HISTORIC VEHICLE taxation class and remain exempt from VED.

If you have a vehicle that you believe was constructed in or before 1st January 1973 you should obtain proof of construction date.

You can get a letter from BMIHT by sending them the appropriate fee and a copy of your V5 or if you already have a Heritage certificate this will suffice.

Address it to
Archive Department,
British Motor Industry Heritage Trust
Heritage Motor Centre
Banbury Road
Gaydon, Warks
CV35 0BJ

You can then apply to your local Vehicle Registration Office (using form V10) to license in the exempt Historic Vehicle class. For your local Vehicle Registration Office look up "Transport, Department of" in your telephone directory. Further details from:

Customer Enquiries (Vehicles) Unit
DVLA, Swansea SA9 1BL
Tel: 01792 772134 (minicom 01792 782756)
call between 8:15 am and 4:30 pm, Monday-Friday

Below are some copies of newsletters put together by FBHVC. Click on the links to open the full article (opens with Adobe Reader).
As new items come up I will endevour to get them posted here for all our members to view.

About FBHVC The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs exists to uphold the freedom to use old vehicles on the road. It does this by representing the interests of owners of such vehicles to politicians, government officials, and legislators both in UK and (through membership of Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens) in Europe.
FBHVC is a company limited by guarantee, registered number 3842316, and was founded in 1988.
There are nearly 500 subscriber organisations representing a total membership of over 250,000 in addition to individual and trade supporters. Details can be found at www.fbhvc.co.uk or sent on application to the secretary.

Newsletter: 5 - 2011

Newsletter: 4 - 2011

Newsletter: 2 - 2011