mGizmo
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£60 saved for me too. 

But presumably you can wait until later in the year or Jan-Mar 2025 and then follow the same process?Hi, in April 2025, EV cars switch from £0 per year car tax to £165. If your car is registered in March, you'll avoid paying it next year. But if registered in April, May or after, you just miss the cut-off and will pay £165 on renewal.
This method delays it for a year to March 2026.
I went to the "tax your car" government website, and re-taxed mine. You need the V5C registration document 11 digit code, I clicked on "I don't have a tax renewal letter" and agreed "I know I'm taxing it before I have to". But I re-taxed it early, in March instead of June, at a cost of £0.
It took a couple of days to update, but checking on my car's tax status, it has now switched renewal from 1 June 2024 to 1 March 2025, so therefore I avoid paying £165 for a year.
It took 5 mins, and I recommend doing it, there's no reason for everyone whose tax (currently £0) is due after April in 're-taxing' now for £0 and delaying the payment of £165 for a year. But it HAS to be done in March, ie now.
I got this off an MG facebook group where they're all doing it, i tried it and it worked. You don't need to SORN the car for a day which some people thought.
Why would it be illegal?
It’s a shame I only just retaxed mine
Is there anything I can do now
Yes. Cars get retaxed whenever they are sold anyway, as car tax isn't portable any more, so there's no tie to the original registration date.I guess it's a legal legitimate loophole, and sometimes loopholes get closed. It's the fact that "taxing" the car currently costs £0, so the 'cost' of re-taxing the car one or even eleven months early is also £0.
Wouldn't bother me one bit, playing the system. The Systems been playing us for bl00dy years and continues to do so. ?Nothing illegal about it, but some may consider it to be playing the system, which I guess it is.
I'm probably being a bit fik, but when you say registered in March this year, do you mean just March this year or also before March this year aswell. ??Hi, in April 2025, EV cars switch from £0 per year car tax to £165. If your car is registered in March, you'll avoid paying it next year. But if registered in April, May or after, you just miss the cut-off and will pay £165 on renewal.
This method delays it for a year to March 2026.
If your renewal is before April 2025 you'll pay £0 as present. So if you are in Feb 2025, your first £180 will be due Feb 2026.So to get this clear (to me anyway) If I got an X Power that was registered before March this year 2024 I won't need to pay the new road tax on EVs next year 2025 the first road tax I'll pay is in 2026. ?
Mine is due in September, would it work for me?
Do I put my ref number off my log book in, or ignore that bit?
It suggests if I tax it now I may be charged again
I agree, an over sight I think they call it.I guess it's a legal legitimate loophole, and sometimes loopholes get closed. It's the fact that "taxing" the car currently costs £0, so the 'cost' of re-taxing the car one or even eleven months early is also £0.
Until the 1st of April and then it will cost all us zero emissions EV drivers £185 for 12 months.You all have to pay tax ? wow , I was under the impression EV tax was zero !!!!!!![]()
But presumably you can wait until later in the year or Jan-Mar 2025 and then follow the same process?