Sorn Declaration

[paul1763]

is there a minimum amount of time a vehicle must be off the road if you declare it sorn? e.g if i sorn my 4x4 today and we have snow next week can i then tax it. i seem to remember reading it must be off the road for at least 3 weeks when this sorn rule came in some years ago,but cannot find anything about it now. thanks

[ToraToraTora]

yes you can un sorn it anytime. you just have to tax it from the 1st of the month you are in.

[Old_Geezer]

Unsure where you got 3 weeks from. It would be a most ridiculous rule when they yearn for the opportunity to fine everyone if they don't SORN something (as an alternative to the sensible assumption that it is off road unless discovered otherwise) and then say when you do it has to be for a minimum time. That stated, the amount of idiocy we find in authority these days, perhaps I ought not consider it beyond them.

[paul1763]

thanks both. Old Geezer,i dont know how to create links to these answers, but i typed into google "minimum time a vehicle can be declared sorn".. 5th page down/Q8. The way i read, it seems 3months. or am i reading it totally wrong. how do you interpret it? would be interesting to see what you think.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah the Irish website. (http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/MotorTax/QA-DeclaringaVehicleOffTheRoad/) I think I'd rather get the info from .gov.uk.

I can only assume a bad choice of wording. I can only guess that maybe the form (and I haven't one at hand to check) asked you for how long you will be keeping it off the road - because officialdom seems to like to make things as awkward & difficult as possible for reasons only they can know.

If this guess is correct then it'd be the shortest period they want you to declare even though it would not bind you.

But it is interesting it would say this. Surely everyone would say the full 12 months they were allowed and then cancel it whenever required ?

It is difficult to second guess why officials do things.

[paul1763]

thanks for the quick reply Old Geezer, i didn't realise it wasn't from the dvla site, will teach me to read things properly in future. I'm english living in wales and just assumed the bit i couldn't read was welsh. i'll look through dvla site and if no luck will leave as long as poss as i dont need to use it or untill i get the usual abusive threatening letter from dvla