Regret surrendering my VA driver's license

Has anyone able to keep their drivers license from the states & get away without notifying the IRS & the state about new address in the Uk?

I wish i hadn't surrendered my VA drivers license before i arrived here in London July 2011. I've already notified the IRS that i am now living & working here in London. I'm thinking of applying for a VA drivers license on my next trip back to the states. My father resides in Va & want to use his address when i apply for a drivers license. Is that prudent to do that since the IRS knows my new address in London?

The IRS and the driver's licensing authority have nothing to do with each other.  How did you 'surrender' your license in the first place?

 I simply call the VA DMV 2 weeks before i left the US for the UK & told them told i was moving. So customer service @ the DMV told me unless i was in the military i had to surrender my VA drivers license when moving out of the state. 

I never surrendered my California license when I moved. I lost the actual card and had to get a replacement when we moved back last year. It was quite amusing when the DMV clerk asked me where I lost it and offered to assign me a new license number for fear of Identity Theft and I told her that there was no worry about that since I lost it when rambling through the Derbyshire Dales. 

You cannot get a new VA license without proving residency, and in any case, VA state law requires you to notify the DMV of any change of address. In most states, driving with a license that has incorrect information is equivalent to no operators license, and you can be charged if you are even stopped in a random check.

but there are plus sides. VA is also a state that tries to keep you forever and make you pay state taxes, unless you take specific steps to prove that you are no longer domiciled in VA. If you keep a drivers license, that counts as a 'tie' to VA. If you never intend to live there again, then cut the ties.

Same with PA. 

MD is the same way. When renewing your license, you have to check a box stating that in fact, you do reside in the state. Also, because I still had a license in MD, I was called for jury duty. Since the address I used was my rental property and no one forwarded that mail to me...well....it was a bit of a debacle. Honestly, if I knew I was never coming back I wouldn't have bothered keeping my US license.

I've managed to keep my Texas DL for 13 years now while living in the UK. At first, I was able to renew my TX DL with my England address on it, online. Upon trying to renew it again however, at a TX DL office, I was informed that it should not have been renewed with an out of state address. Now I use my brother's Texas address. I plan to just let it expire in 2013, since I figure I'm here for the duration. My British DL is good for car hire back home.

Actually your UK license is BETTER for car hire in the US; if you book on-line you get the retail rate including CDW and other insurance that you pay extra for if renting in the US. Some of the fine print says you must produce a license from the country from which the reservation was made, so no good showing up with a US license. My last rental was $27.99/day including taxes, airport fees and all the insurance. I couldn't get that rate w/o insurance in most places while still living in the US and traveling n business.

States vary in their requirements, and if you go back, you simply take the required documents to prove residency. Why bother keeping a license in the US if you intend to live here permanently?

I felt a bit sad when I gave up my Ohio license too. I was renewing
It for a few years using my parents address each time we headed back to Ohio
Then found out u really needed to be a resident inohio to have
The license so decided not to renew anymore. I have had a uk license now for 8 years. I passed a manual driving test and feel that this is a great achievement
Considering how easy the Ohio driving test was. When we hire a car in the Us
We use skycars and it requires a UK license for insurance purposes.