Check your car tax in 10 seconds

The way road tax is handled when a car is sold was changed back in 2014. Previously, you would pay for either 6 or 12 months of road tax and your tax disc would stay with the car if you sold it. If there was any time left on the disc, you basically lost out on what you’d paid for it. The way it works now is, you are automatically issued a refund from the DVLA for any amount outstanding and the new owner of the vehicle taxes it anew. You should receive this within 8 weeks of the sale happening. If you’re considering selling your car to Sell 2 Swansway, find out how much time is left on your car tax by entering your reg number at the top of the page.

This depends on a number of things such as the make and model of your car and the amount of emissions it produces. It can be as little as £0 for electric cars and as much as £630 for older, more polluting diesel cars. To find out which price bracket your car fits into based on its emissions test, look at this table of rates based on official CO2 emissions to give you an idea of how much your vehicle will cost you in road tax each year. To find out how much your car tax is by reg, just pop your reg number in the search function at the top of the page to get an answer in under ten seconds.

You can renew your road tax online or at the post office if you’ve received the V11 reminder. If you’re taxing it for the first time after buying a car you can use the 15-digit reference number on the new owner slip that you would have been given when the purchase was completed.

Engine technology has progressed to the point where they are cleaner and release fewer harmful fumes into the atmosphere than ever before. Electric cars in particular, which produce no carbon dioxide at all, are exempt from road tax. If you have a newer car, chances are you’ll have seen a dramatic fall in the cost of your annual road tax bill.