Been an expat too long... when I left Britland, yer car was either taxed, or it wasn't... simple. But they were just introducing, IIRC, the concept of SORN - as a voluntary declaration you could make, if yer car was going to be off the road for a while.
I understand it's now all changed, and SORN is compulsory.
Question is: can someone come up with a timetable? When was SORN first introduced, and how often has it been tightened up, and when? And in what ways?
Another quickie while I remember it: can anyone quote chapter and verse on where it says in the law that the address of a registered keeper must be a UK address? Surely it would be sensible for a vehicle belonging to an expat to have correspondance go to their overseas address? Otherwise, if you don't have someone you can rely on in the UK to forward stuff, it will just lie for months and months in a PO Box address.
I don't have any problem with gas, electricity, or insurance for my UK property - hell, even the council send their council tax paperwork to New York. But DVLA are (surprise surprise) being uniquely pigheaded about overseas addresses.
Thanks
Mike