End your trade licence and return your trade plates

Your licence will end if you either:

  • let your licence expire without renewing it
  • cancel your licence - also known as 鈥榮urrendering鈥� your licence - before it expires

If you cancel it before it expires, you鈥檒l get a refund for each full calendar month left on the licence once DVLA receives your application form.

You鈥檒l be sent a letter when your licence is due to expire, and another after your licence expires (if you do not renew). The letters explain what you need to do.

If you do not get the letter and you do not want to renew, send your trade plates back to DVLA with:

  • form VTL308 if you鈥檙e cancelling your licence before it expires
  • a letter explaining that you鈥檙e not renewing if your licence has expired