Road Tax On EV Cars and £0 2017> ICE Coming April 2025

[Bods]

2 things you can be Certain of in this world

The Govenment want as much money off you as possible and they really really hate us

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/drivers-face-new-190-car-29250975

New zero-emission cars registered on or after 1 April 2025 will be liable to pay the lowest first-year rate of VED (which applies to vehicles with CO2 emissions 1 to 50g/km) currently £10 a year. From the second year of registration onwards, they will move to the standard rate, currently £190 a year.

Zero emission cars first registered between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2025 will also pay the standard rate. The UK's road tax system uses a “dual-rate structure”, Mr Miller went on to tell GB News as he highlighted the imminent and impending changes next year.

So EV car drives in 2017 onward Registered will be paying £190 a year while others like mate at work pay £20 a year on a 2016 2.0L Diesel Focus

As Delboy says, You know it makes Sense

 

[Akira99]

I'm not suprised in the slightest that they will start getting road tax on EV cars, this is the govenment you never get anything free

 

[pooman2084]

My first 1000 miles in my Polestar have cost me the princely sum of £20.52, so I can use some of those savings towards the tax. I think it’s only fair all users contribute to road upkeep etc.

The focus on CO2 was the wrong measure imho. It’s the particulates coming out of the back that we should have be looking to reduce.

 

[TheDaddy]

Yeh we all knew we would have too at some point ( I agree we should all pay ). So what basically happened is all the people that could afford an electric car have saved even more money for years , Then when the working man can afford to buy one they start charging for tax ?? Sounds about right yeh ??

Dave.

 

[John Bennett]

That must be a sweet spot to get away with £20 on a 2.0 Focus diesel - my old 2002 Golf was over 10x that.

First world problem and all that, but most of my road tax on the family cars is the £600 annual additional rate they slap on it if the as-new price is a penny over £40k. I'm a bit surprised EVs got out of that for so long as it's a wealth tax rather than scaled by emissions.
I don't get too upset though, devaluation and punctures dwarf fuel/electric and tax payments when you only do 8k a year, plus I enjoy cars, rather than them just being an A->B thing.

 

[tb lilley]

It's not 'news' though, is it? All this was announced 18 months ago.

 

[big10p]

I drive a petrol Fiesta and pay zero road tax. Living the dream! Lol

 

[Bods]

That must be a sweet spot to get away with £20 on a 2.0 Focus diesel - my old 2002 Golf was over 10x that.

First world problem and all that, but most of my road tax on the family cars is the £600 annual additional rate they slap on it if the as-new price is a penny over £40k. I'm a bit surprised EVs got out of that for so long as it's a wealth tax rather than scaled by emissions.
I don't get too upset though, devaluation and punctures dwarf fuel/electric and tax payments when you only do 8k a year, plus I enjoy cars, rather than them just being an A->B thing.

https://www.parkers.co.uk/ford/focus/hatchback-2011/car-tax/

Loads of them under Band B so £20

I don't bother with Diesel myself but I was surprised when he told me his is only £20 and he says it's 150 bhp one as well

 

[Bods]

My first 1000 miles in my Polestar have cost me the princely sum of £20.52, so I can use some of those savings towards the tax. I think it’s only fair all users contribute to road upkeep etc.

The focus on CO2 was the wrong measure imho. It’s the particulates coming out of the back that we should have be looking to reduce.

Gotta say the Polestar are quite nice looking

 

[TheDaddy]

My 2014 2.0 ltr Vauxhall Insignia was £0 per year as well !! But if i drive into Birmingham / Manchester ect it was huge charge.

 

[Brettster]

I used to drive a hybid, Tax at the time was £10 per year, they were even so kind as to break it down to let me pay it in 12 instalments!!
Been driving electric for 6 years now with no tax
Free charging at work, means I've spent very little on travel other than the car itself

 

[channel27]

Just bought a PHEV RAV4 which gets me to work for 87p per day.
And it should be much more economical and reliable than the Disco Sport that’s on the drive needing a new timing chain that’ll cost me £2474… 😡

 

[Body pop]

Total joke all this nonsense with people paying different amounts of car tax .get it all back to one price for all or charge by the mileage .i say that based on the fact i don’t do many miles ,probably a lot less than 2 k miles a year but pay a fortune for tax on petrol turbo car ..am i not ‘greener then than an ev that’s doing 20 k a year .total bollox the lot of it

 

[Mc-Q]

get a military surplus truck and register it as a classic/historical class.
another option:
get a 4x4 truck and fit offroad tires and a PTO on the back << very important bit.
then re-register it as "agricultural" classification.

or go to the police station and make a note of all the license plates on the unmarked cars in the parking area.
then - you know the next bit

 

[Chihiro]

Isn't road tax one of your lowest bills what ever you pay?

I think if you can afford to drop $$$ on something that sits on the corner & gets turned on once in a blue moon then road tax isn't high on your priority's.

 

[Mc-Q]

if road tax was spent fixing the roads it would be more reasonable to pay it - but it's not.

 

[Bods]

My 2014 2.0 ltr Vauxhall Insignia was £0 per year as well !! But if i drive into Birmingham / Manchester ect it was huge charge.

My Old 2001 1.6ltr HRV would now cost £415 a year Tax and it's ulez friendly

 

[Bods]

So me Dad just told me one of his neighbours has a small Toyota Petrol and he just happened to be going to Tax it free for last time, from next year he's gotta pay £190 also, sounds like any car that was in the 1 to 50g/km and was £0 Tax has gotta start paying next year then

 

[Bods]

Total joke all this nonsense with people paying different amounts of car tax .get it all back to one price for all or charge by the mileage .i say that based on the fact i don’t do many miles ,probably a lot less than 2 k miles a year but pay a fortune for tax on petrol turbo car ..am i not ‘greener then than an ev that’s doing 20 k a year .total bollox the lot of it

That's what's so annoying, I was doing 10k a year but now do under 2k and to have a convertible that I hardly use and pay summat like £345 a year for to do a few hundred miles, so no wear on the roads and hardly any emissions to worry about is just nonsense so I then wanted 1980's car and instead of a Mk2 CRX I or 1.6 CRX mk1 I got 1.5 Mk1 which was a lot cheaper if tax, now it's only got till next Sept and its 40 years so No Tax, No MOT so I wanna get that on the road

 

[bones]

Governments are like drug addicts they always need a bit more each time. The main problem has been the decline in revenue from drinking and smoking. With cars you must remember them pushing you all towards diesal vehicles with the fuel being cheaper than petrol by far. Then when these became the majority they reversed it all. Remember that vegetable oil prices were only increased from 29 pence a litre to 79 pence because it was the price of diesel and lorry drivers had worked out they could use it, what happened those billions of 50p's ? Who got them ? Vegetable oil didn't cost anymore to make. Electric cars were never ever going to be subsidised forever, where would they get the cash they need from ? You'd have to introduce pay per mile initiatives etc. The next issue is going to how to dispose of all these lithium battery packs after their 5-8 year lifespan, that cost is probably going to be passed onto the owner at the point of change I'd think putting the blame on the owner like usual.