Series 3 Historic Tax

Hi my tax is due at the end on march...my S3 was first reg Oct 1975.

Just wondering if I will get it free this time.

Any ideas guys.

Nick.

Sorry guys...my tax it due 1st May 2016 not March.
Nick.

Yes its now rolling tax exemption April 1st is the time to tax yours

Its not due till May 1st...can I tax it a month early then?

Its all relative your vehicle slots into the correct tax exemption date if yes then you can tax it accordingly
Further note you tax it first and your V5C is then sent by the taxing post office to DVLA who then amend its status to Historic
Just wait till may then tax as above

I see many thanks...so do you have to pay for your tax and then they refund you??

It may be easier to get it changed to historic before the tax expires so you're not messing around with refunds. When I changed my 1974 Series 3 last year, it only took a couple of weeks through DVLA

So to get it changed what do I need to do??

There is a good guide on the Rover P6 owners forum. Mines should be tax free from April also.

Been looking forward to it for years...cant see the P6 forum on google...would you have a link...like to read that.

Its ok I found it...very informative...cant wait...I just missed out the first time around in the 70s...and thanks to a nice Labour Gov...they scrapped it.
http://www.p6club.com/content/applying-tax-exemption

Yes same for me, its not much money in the grand scheme of running a series land rover but its going to give me immense pleasure, although I will just put the money straight back into the land rover.

Yes!!
But most importantly it gets classed as....
HISTORIC

gipsybilly said:

Yes same for me, its not much money in the grand scheme of running a series land rover but its going to give me immense pleasure, although I will just put the money straight back into the land rover.

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Yippy.......

....so it's pretty straight forward to claim historic tax then, but what about if your v5 states built 1975 ( like mine is ) but not registered till later
Any ideas how to claim tax free this way?

Pretty sure its build date...
A lot of people before were trying to prove their build date to be eligible for Historic status
The vehicle has to be taxed or have tax running before DVLA will change v5c

This is quite exciting - if it is now back to a rolling limit.

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-exempt-from-vehicle-tax

Edlandy...is you look at the table in my link it shows an model built anytime in 75 is exempt come April...if fact if built before 1/1/76 it is also.

nickjaxe said:

Edlandy...is you look at the table in my link it shows an model built anytime in 75 is exempt come April...if fact if built before 1/1/76 it is also.

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Yep, but it doesn't address when the v5c states a build date ( in my case) as well as a reg date . Carnt see the local post office dragon getting her head round this, when she struggles with a fookin large letter....!
Sorry I'm drifting off into a rant!!
I'm sure there's a way of ringing it through to Swansea, in the good old days of 'local' ( mine was 90miles away!) dvla offices I'm sure I could have popped over and got it sorted. I changed my herald that way to historic tax after it had been of the road for 20 years

AFAIK you have to initially go through Swansea not PO. The very helpful P6 club link explains it all. Just read it.

When I went to tax the BSA Bantam motor cycle and had not been on the road for over 30 years...I just took the log book to the PO...they filed in what was needed and marked it as Historic...and posted it off to Swansea for me...and taxed my bike tax free.

That what I'm going to do come April 1st.