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Road Tax- 1978 registered bike-400/4

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Athame57:
......it's so they can screw one last year of road tax out of us. ;) Imagine if they tried to celebrate the new millenium on 1st January 2001?

blackeagles:
 :o i couldn't possibly comment!

H2Eric:
I believe the 1st April thing is to do with the Budget.

davefirestorm:
I had a run in with a jobsworth at DVLA,one of my bikes was 1registwred January 1st 1978 but it was on file that it was manufactured on December 1st 1978 obviously a mistake someone had entered wrong date.Jobsworth wouldn’t budge but I sorted it eventually and got it registered last year as a Historic Vehicle,as stated you HAVE to take V5 to post office to get Historic status and you’ll get it After 1st April year it qualifies

cooleronthecoast:
Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but rather than start a new one I thought I'd post my query here.  My CB550 was first registered in March 1979.  I encountered a similar jobsworth to Dave (mebbe the same one!) when I rang the DVLA at that time who said my bike wouldn't qualify for historic status until the beginning of 2020.   

So here we are on New Years day 2020 and I'm wondering what I have to do re the V5?  I looked on the DVLA website and tried to tax my bike for free this morning, but they still wanted £66 off me.  However it did say their records indicated my bike was now over 40 years old and if it hadn't been significantly modified since new I would no longer need to MOT it.

Back in March, jobsworth did tell me that come 2020 if I wrote the word HISTORIC in the Tax class of section 7 of the V5 and send it back to Swansea they would issue me with a new V5 confirming the Historic status, then presumably I could go tot eh Post Office and tax it for free

My question is,  do I just send the V5 to Swansea as jobsworth said or do I take it to a Post office and they will do it for me?   

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