Electric cars.

[old dog new tricks]

From further down on the same page.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vehicle-tax-for-electric-and-low-emissions-vehicles

"Additional rate (expensive car supplement)
New electric and zero emission vehicles registered on or after 1 April 2025 with the list price exceeding £40,000 will attract the standard rate, plus the expensive car supplement for the first 5 years from the start of the second licence."

Yours will be £195. If you renew early (or cancel and renew in March) you'll get another year at £0.

Good spot other sites have been spreading misinformation or fake news as the Trump would say stating that the expensive car tax will retrospectively applied to all cars with purchase price over £40k from April 2017, this may have affected me.

Regards beating the system I am sure that from 1st April 2025 the rates change and you will be classed as not taxed, the DVLA stated they send a reminder to me, my car is not due for VED renewal until May.
When I check the DVLA tax checker still only shows current rates, will not show new rates for my car

 

[old dog new tricks]

Don’t buy an expensive car!
Buy one for 20k instead of 40 and spend the money you saved on this

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32640433...TTlM-5vTVy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I can assure you I certainly never paid £40k I bought it 4 years old at less than £17k and took it on a PCP so I can hand it back if the battery tanks

 

[Nicks90]

This extra tax is just ridiculous
Anything over 40k classed as a luxury car?
I'd hardly say a well specced xtrail, or golf, or ford kuga, or (insert pretty much most cars outside of econo-boxes) are 'luxury'
It's been set way too low to be realistic at anything other than just another generalised tax grab by labour.