MJH2454 Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 I recently had the letter from DVLA to tax my Spitfire MKIV, it is registered as an historic vehicle on the V5. The letter quotes the V5C reference number I should use whilst taxing the vehicle which is an 11 digit number. The DVLA taxing website will only accept 16 Digit V5 numbers So I can't carry out the request to tax the vehicle, I wrote to the DVLA 2.5 months ago about the anomaly, to date no response This must be happening to others, any advice? Many Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 so you do have a current V5 showing historic ??? that shpuld get it taxed at a Post office you could go to a post office that does tax and they can ring their hot line and maybe get some clues for you how to use the V5C thats a bit odd , have you tried phoning dvla for their take on the missing 5 digits ?? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrapman Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 I think you are mixing 2 numbers up. taxing in 1 way needs the 16 digit number on the reminder, other way uses the 11 digit on the V5c. ISTRvif you have the reminder you can't use the other method? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJH2454 Posted August 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 the reminder had the same 11 digit number as the V5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJH2454 Posted August 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 Well done guys, I went into the system again and said I didn't have a reminder and that allowed me to tax the vehicle using the 11 digit number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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