Renewed vehicle licence seemingly without valid MOT?

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An older vehicle seems to have been left unmoved for several weeks nearby to where I live. Originally I thought it might have been dumped but recently I checked on the government website as to whether it was properly MOT’d etc. The MOT was due to expire on the 1st Feb 2019 so I have looked again today and sure enough the MOT is now shown as expired. I then did a check on the vehicle licence tax and this would appear valid until 1st Feb 2020. This appears pretty perplexing. How can the tax be arranged for a vehicle with no valid MOT certificate?

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The road tax runs out on 1st Feb next year, so it'll actually expire on the 31st Jan next year. If a car is already taxed then you can buy the next tax within a couple of weeks before the old one runs out. Thus I reckon a new one was bought during Jan 2019 to expire at the end of Jan 2020.

However, I'm pretty sure the rules were changed a few years ago. You used to be able to have a car taxed then keep the tax after the MOT expired (or was it the insurance, or both maybe?). IIRC that loophole is supposed to be closed now so you need all three or none at all.
 
A car only needs the MOT to be valid on the day the tax starts from so you can tax a car for a year if the MOT is valid only on the first day of the tax period. If the tax or insurance expire and are not renewed, the vehicle has to be sorned but that doesn’t apply to the MOT.

Just to add, if your MOT expires on the last day of the month and you try to renew the tax early, you won’t be able to even if you have a couple of weeks left on the MOT.
 
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Harry Bloomfield said:
It was perhaps taxed just before the MOT expired. Have you checked if it is insured?
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Are you legitimately able to check on insurance if not the owner of said vehicle? I thought that this was not the case unless you were involved in some kind of accident and had not been able to obtain details from other driver?

Anyway thanks for the comment, guys. Maybe the tax has been placed in order that the car does not get towed as I understand that this will not happen just for an expired MOT.
 
chainsaw_masochist said:
Are you legitimately able to check on insurance if not the owner of said vehicle? I thought that this was not the case unless you were involved in some kind of accident and had not been able to obtain details from other driver?
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You are maybe not supposed to officially, but they turn a blind eye to people checking and even encourage it https://ownvehicle.askmid.com/

I regularly check the gypsy vans and trucks trawling round the streets for scrap and I am rarely surprised to check and find they are legal, the police seem to turn a blind eye to them driving uninsured, untaxed and un-MOT'ed vehicles. Probably too much trouble to take them a fully laden scrap truck off the road.
 
We saw a car over the road with a big yellow clamp on it a month back, odd I thought as it was parked across the front of their drive.

Been in use for over a year ans when I looked it up untaxed for over a year as well..
 
Curious if anyone knows what the rules are regarding uninsured motors parked on roads/footpaths?

The neighbour left a car outside their house parked on the grass siding (shouldn't be parked there anyway and there's no drop kerb, their parking is around the back as it's a corner plot) and it hasn't moved for weeks. I haven't seen the guy now for almost a month so I've got a feeling him and his Mrs have had several bother and he's left. It is however uninsured.
 
If it's uninsured or untaxed, by law it must be sorned and kept off the public highway.
 
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just caught up with this. i had a similar situation with this with a car parked outside my house for months. had tax but expired mot. I contacted the local council who came out immediately and issued a warning notice, that they would remove the vehicle in one week if it wasn’t moved.
 
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