How to make a SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification) :Cross Stitch – Motoring

If you’re the registered keeper of a vehicle that’s not being taxed and is kept off the road you must make a SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification). Find out how you can do this online, by phone or when you can apply for a refund of vehicle tax.

You can make a SORN online or by phone as long as you are the registered keeper of the vehicle. When making a SORN online you can print the confirmation page for your records. Also, if you give your email address when making a SORN online you will receive a confirmation email for the transaction. An acknowledgement letter will not be sent.

Make a SORN online

Use the reference number shown on your V5C registration certificate, V11 or V85/1 reminder form and declare your vehicle off road.

Make a SORN by phone

Call 0300 123 4321 – use the reference number shown on your V5C registration certificate, V11 or V85/1 reminder form.

If you have become the registered keeper of the vehicle and received your V5C during the current month you will need to fill in a V890 ‘Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN)’ form and send it to DVLA, Swansea SA99 1AR.

For example, if you became the keeper on 4 December and received the V5C on 26 December you will need to fill in a V890. If you became the keeper on 28 November and received the V5C on 20 December you could SORN online or by phone.

If you buy a vehicle that already has a SORN made by the previous keeper, that SORN will come to an end on the date you buy the vehicle. You must make a new SORN if you are keeping the vehicle untaxed off the public road. You cannot transfer a SORN.

After making a SORN DVLA should send you a letter confirming this. If you don’t receive the letter after four weeks of making SORN, you should contact DVLA customer enquiries immediately on 0300 790 6802 (if you have made a SORN in advance you should wait four weeks after the expiry of previous tax or SORN).