VAT & VED (Vehicle Excise Duty/Road Tax)

Where Disability Doesn’t Mean Giving Up the Ride

VAT Exemptions & VED

  • VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (VED) – EXEMPTIONS & REDUCTIONS

  • VAT Exemptions – Outside the UK but Within the Bailiwick of the NABD

  • VAT Exemptions on the Purchase of New Adapted Motor Vehicles

  • VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (VED) – EXEMPTIONS & REDUCTIONS

  • VAT Exemptions – Outside the UK but Within the Bailiwick of the NABD

  • VAT Exemptions on the Purchase of New Adapted Motor Vehicles

No Refunds from HMRC after purchase:

This is not a VAT refund system and there’s no facility for HMRC to refund VAT to you if you’re charged VAT incorrectly. If you’re entitled to buy VAT-free goods, your supplier should not charge you VAT. If your supplier refuses to accept your ‘Eligibility Declaration by a Disabled Person’ form and allow the VAT relief, go to a different supplier, because you cannot claim the VAT back once you have paid it.

* The VAT1615A form (Customer declaration for zero-rated VAT supply of an adapted motor vehicle) is available from:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachmentdata/file/605061/VAT1615A.pdf

or from the link further up the page. If you cannot download the files for any reason if you ask nicely, Julie will email you a copy from the NABD office: office@thenabd.org.uk

** The VAT ‘Eligibility Declaration by a Disabled Person’ form (for VAT relief on adaptations and services) is available by clicking here or available from the NABD office via email: office@thenabd.org.uk

If you require either of these forms and you do not have access to email or printing facilities you can request them by writing to: NABD, Unit 20, The Bridgewater Centre, Robson Avenue, Manchester, M41 7TE. (Please enclose an A5 self-addressed envelope with a first-class stamp on it).

Rick Hulse
NABD Chairman

No Refunds from HMRC after purchase:

This is not a VAT refund system and there’s no facility for HMRC to refund VAT to you if you’re charged VAT incorrectly. If you’re entitled to buy VAT-free goods, your supplier should not charge you VAT. If your supplier refuses to accept your ‘Eligibility Declaration by a Disabled Person’ form and allow the VAT relief, go to a different supplier, because you cannot claim the VAT back once you have paid it.

* The VAT1615A form (Customer declaration for zero-rated VAT supply of an adapted motor vehicle) is available from:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system
/uploads/attachmentdata/file/605061/VAT1615A.pdf

or from the link further up the page. If you cannot download the files for any reason if you ask nicely, Julie will email you a copy from the NABD office: office@thenabd.org.uk

** The VAT ‘Eligibility Declaration by a Disabled Person’ form (for VAT relief on adaptations and services) is available by clicking here or available from the NABD office via email: office@thenabd.org.uk

If you require either of these forms and you do not have access to email or printing facilities you can request them by writing to: NABD, Unit 20, The Bridgewater Centre, Robson Avenue, Manchester, M41 7TE. (Please enclose an A5 self-addressed envelope with a first-class stamp on it).

Rick Hulse
NABD Chairman

How to claim:

Send all of the following to DVLA Swansea:

your statement of entitlement (it’s at the end of your PIP award letter)
the vehicle registration certificate (V5C)
a V10 form
an original MOT or GVT certificate (if your vehicle needs one)
a cheque or payable order (made out to ‘DVLA, Swansea’) for 50% of the full rate of car tax for the vehicle
DVLA
Swansea
SA99 1DZ

For further information see: http://www.gov.uk/vehicle-exempt-from-vehicle-tax

Rick Hulse NABD Chairman

(from DVLA Rates of Vehicle Tax – V149)

Trikes not exceeding 450kg unladen weight are Tax Class 50 (Tricycles). Trikes of more than 450kg unladen weight are Tax Class 11 (Private/Light Goods Vehicle). NB. There are people who believe that trike MOT class and Taxation Class depends on whether it is a car-based trike or a motorcycle-based trike. Ignore them, they are wrong!

How to claim:

Send all of the following to DVLA Swansea:

your statement of entitlement (it’s at the end of your PIP award letter)
the vehicle registration certificate (V5C)
a V10 form
an original MOT or GVT certificate (if your vehicle needs one)
a cheque or payable order (made out to ‘DVLA, Swansea’) for 50% of the full rate of car tax for the vehicle
DVLA
Swansea
SA99 1DZ

For further information see: http://www.gov.uk/vehicle-exempt-from-vehicle-tax

Rick Hulse NABD Chairman

(from DVLA Rates of Vehicle Tax – V149)

Trikes not exceeding 450kg unladen weight are Tax Class 50 (Tricycles). Trikes of more than 450kg unladen weight are Tax Class 11 (Private/Light Goods Vehicle). NB. There are people who believe that trike MOT class and Taxation Class depends on whether it is a car-based trike or a motorcycle-based trike. Ignore them, they are wrong!