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Apply for a toll exemption account

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Are you eligible for an exemption account?

You qualify for exempt travel through the Tyne Tunnels if you either:

  • are a Blue Badge Holder
  • are entitled to nil road tax either through the Motability Scheme or if your vehicle is exempt due to disability

If you’re a Blue Badge holder, you can now self-serve and manage your own Vehicle Registration Number changes against your Blue Badge exemption via your online account. Please login to your account to do this.

Apply or Renew

Blue Badge Exemption Application

Disability Tax Exemption Application


Blue Badge or Disability Tax Exemption Renewal Application

Need help submitting your application? Please call us on 0191 574 0031.

Have an exempt account but the Blue Badge holder was not in the vehicle? Please pay here

Exemption Permit Application – Help Sheet

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If you have made a journey on a Blue Badge account and the Blue Badge holder was not present, please fill in the form to make your payment here.

You qualify for exempt travel through the Tyne Tunnels if you either:

  • are a Blue Badge Holder
  • are entitled to nil road tax either through the Motability Scheme or if your vehicle is exempt due to disability

To apply for a Blue Badge exemption account click here, or a Disability Tax exemption click here.

Renewals are required annually. Please visit our renewal form here.

You can only register one vehicle against your exemption. You will have the option to change your registered vehicle once per calendar month. Blue Badge holders can self-serve and manage their own vehicle registration number changes against their exemption via their online account. Please login to your account to do this.

Please see our step-by-step how-to guide here.

If the email address you’ve provided in your application is already associated with a TT2 Pre-Paid Account, or if an email address has not been specified in your application, you will not receive reminders to renew your exemption.  Please note the date of expiry and be sure to renew your exemption before it expires, otherwise you may be subject to unpaid toll charges.

 

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