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.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

This extra tax is just ridiculous...

It's been set way too low to be realistic at anything other than just another generalised tax grab by labour.

It was introduced by George Osborne as part of his car tax reforms in July 2015, it's just that none of the (mostly Tory) Chancellors since then have increased the £40k limit...
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...15/summer-budget-2015#budget-policy-decisions

 

[Nicks90]

In which case I stand corrected - but still maintain it's just a cynical tax grab.
We could do with a DOGE in this country to chop out a big chunk of what we have to pay. However that's probably worth a separate thread hehehe

 

[hoppyscotty]

Well it was the conservatives that started us down this net zero nonsense and they realised that as more people transitioned to net zero products like EVs, and away from ICE cars, then a huge black hole would start to emerge in our tax take due to the decline in sale of petrol and diesel, so they are inevitably thinking of ever more innovative and cynical ways to grab tax. By coercing people into new more expensive cars then this new 'luxury' car tax might go someway to plugging the tax income black hole they're creating.

Of course luxury items are always an easy target for politicians. But today's luxury items are tomorrows essentials...would we all consider a mobile phone to be a luxury item anymore? And about 30 years ago 40K did buy you a luxury car, but these days it barely buy's you a modest family hatchback with a few optional extras. It was the last tory government that did the very un-tory like thing and increase taxation, and they were punished for it in the last general election, but this rabble are doing exactly what everyone expected them to do and load up taxes even more. They could revoke or reduce any tax they like, but taxes operate on a ratchet mechanism and rarely are totally removed or significantly reduced. In the last budget we got a measly penny off a pint's worth of tax relief..yeah, great help that is on the basis it wasn't really passed to the consumer and totally swallowed up by other tax increases like NI and the increase in minimum wage. So expect more from this lot. It is not in their nature to reduce or remove taxes under normal circumstances.

The more they push EV's the more of a tax problem they are going to create so the more other things are going to be taxed.