Road tax for electric vehicles.

[Polarbear]

Amongst other things in Mr. Hunts budget, electric vehicles will have to pay VED from April 2025. I presume this will include electric motorbikes although there are so few it's not going to plug many holes in the national budget.

So this will end the tenuous (bullshit) link between emissions and VED and obviously it means everyone will pay more. Another nail in the coffin of motorised personal transport maybe?

It was always going to happen. The government caln't afford to lose the huge financial pie that comes from fuel taxes. The only question now is what and when they are going to introduce some form of taxation on home charging or mileage use.

There's only two constants in the world, death and taxes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63660321
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[The Artist]

There should be 2 taxes relating to motor vehicles.

1. Fuel duty - This accounts for gas guzzlers/emissions etc.

2. Vehicle weight - This accounts for oversized vehicles that do actual damage to the roads and cause the most particulate pollution with tyre and brake dust particles.

I am yet to hear a logical opposition to these points.

EV owners won't be hit by the first one but they will (rightly so) need to pay the second.

It will encourage people to purchase and use smaller more efficient transport.

Lorries will need to pay more to repair the roads they destroy.

[grr666]

Its no coincidence that a vehicles excise duty is calculated on what they can charge for the most dependent on
class of vehicle. My car, it's emissions, my bikes, it's CC, My van it's a flat rate, wouldn't matter if I had a 3.0
Sprinter LWB or the 1.8 Transit connect I actually have. With lorries it's axle weight, with buses, it's number of seats.

This has FVCK all to do with emissions.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/907390/v149x1-rates-of-vehicle-tax.pdf

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1062988/v149-rates-of-vehicle-tax-from-1-april-2022-for-cars-motorcycles-light-goods-vehicles-and-private-light-goods-vehicles.pdf
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[blurredman]

The future is to go backwards, and buy vehicles that are classed as 'historic'.
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[Polarbear]

[MCN]

[Easy-X]

No mention of back-dating any of this stuff i.e. does one still get the VED rate at time of purchase? Don't seem to have a reason to junk my old zero road tax diesel Skoda
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[stinkwheel]

They should put the road tax on tyres.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

More likely they will put on harder wearing tyre which last longer with the commensurate reduction in grip reducing road safety.
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[Polarbear]

[doggone]

12p/litre on fuel from March, he didn't mention that while speaking it must have slipped his mind

[Nobby the Bastard]

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[The Artist]