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Originally Posted by Laird Scooby
I seem to recall you keep mentioning the RB becomes eligible in April next year, can you explain a bit more please Alan? That all suggests mine will be eligible in April 2029 as well.  |
I've just cut and pasted this from the DVLA website Dave, it rolls forward every year:
Vehicles exempt from vehicle tax
If your vehicle was built before 1 January 1980, you can stop paying vehicle tax from 1 April 2020.
... so, all the 1979 vehicles became eligible to be tax exempt (the owner still has to apply to change the taxation class) on 1 Apr 2020. Next year all the cars built in 18980 (including the RB) will become eligible for the historic taxation class on 1 Apr 21... and so on.
So, if your car was built in 1998 then it will (like all the vehicles built in 1988) qualify to be tax free on 1 April 2029 (assuming the rules don't change in the meantime of course).
This is separate from the MoT requirement, which is just 40 years from first registration (to the day).
Good news?
Alan