Need Advise, should I report the scrapped vehicle?

tekkenman

yesterday I received a letter from Dept of Transport, it was sent to my friends address where I lived ages ago. My friend only gave me yesterday..
the date of this letter notice was 27th August 2013.

Basically I had a old car about 7 years ago and it was damaged in an accident in 2006. i left it at the front yard and one day a guy came by ask if he can buy the car for parts and he said he will scrap the car after, i sold him the car but never bother to transfer the ownership, he didn't bother to ask either.

now i have a problem, Dept of Transport sent the notice to me to check the status of this car. it is still registered as my name and my old address, i want to tell them that the car has been sold for parts and probably scapped as well.
however i am afraid they will ask me to pay for the motor tax for the past 7 years as i stopped renewing the motor tax when the car was damaged.

on the letter it says, i must notify them before 30th Sep 2013 othwise i will be liable for arrears back to the last motor tax expiry date...

what should i do?

Jamie2k9

tekkenman wrote: »

yesterday I received a letter from Dept of Transport, it was sent to my friends address where I lived ages ago. My friend only gave me yesterday..
the date of this letter notice was 27th August 2013.

Basically I had a old car about 7 years ago and it was damaged in an accident in 2006. i left it at the front yard and one day a guy came by ask if he can buy the car for parts and he said he will scrap the car after, i sold him the car but never bother to transfer the ownership, he didn't bother to ask either.

now i have a problem, Dept of Transport sent the notice to me to check the status of this car. it is still registered as my name and my old address, i want to tell them that the car has been sold for parts and probably scapped as well.
however i am afraid they will ask me to pay for the motor tax for the past 7 years as i stopped renewing the motor tax when the car was damaged.

on the letter it says, i must notify them before 30th Sep 2013 othwise i will be liable for arrears back to the last motor tax expiry date...

what should i do?

Report it, just say that the letter was sent to the wrong address. I was asked about a car from 10 years ago which I scrapped and they were looking for tax book which I didn't have. They have not wrote back in a few weeks looking for money anyway and if they do they won't get it.

Eugene Yes

tekkenman wrote: »

yesterday I received a letter from Dept of Transport............................................................................on the letter it says, i must notify them before 30th Sep 2013 othwise i will be liable for arrears back to the last motor tax expiry date...

what should i do?

You will only have to pay arrears if you want to tax the car again. That's not gonna happen. Just notify them its scrapped.

corktina

notify them it's sold...you need a cert of destruction if it's scrapped and you don't know it has been.