EV Car tax question.
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Imo this makes a mockery of taxing evs. If older cars are going to carry on being cheap to tax, then why should ev owners get punishing. I think back dating takes the **** and is wrong, I'm sure they were going to do it years ago then changed their minds (how unusual
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Same with my mums Pug 108, 12m only for £0.
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It was an incentive to buy, now it's normalised. There isn't much more to it tbh.
I agree, both ICE and EV's use the road so both should be taxed on your combination and wasn't the VED put in place to help maintain the road infrastructure?
They done the same with Solar panel FIT payments.
Exactly - just because tax and incentives are set low from the start doesn't mean it should be that way forever !
As an EV owner i'm happy to pay and contribute towards VED.
The 'Luxury car tax' needs to move with inflation though. e.g. £40k from 2017 (when it was introduced) is now the equivalent of £52k,
It's just another Fiscal Drag element added to all of the others
I'd say that was true if it wasn't for the fact that the alternative (petrol/diesel) is being mandated out. Bait and switch seems a fair enough description TBH.
28/29 Tax year will be the one to watch for EV company car drivers. 5% > 6% or will the jump be greater?
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How else do you think it would have happened? This was how they did it for solar and heatpumps.
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My 2001 80g/km Honda Insight will have to pay tax from next year after 24 years of £0. Utter joke.
How what would have happened?
Just goes to show how they never think things through, all vehicles that use the roads should pay tax, but it should be based on several factors as stated by rlcK
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I like the idea of using the vehicle weight when it comes to EV's or combination of weight and an official (tested) efficiency rating. £180 for all is a bit ridiculous but typical of the UK these days.Maybe will flip-flop on it later
People should be encouraged into smaller/lighter EV's as those are likely to be more efficient.
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I agree but think there are simpler, more fair ways. The general principle of tax is you hit those who can afford it - so by that basic premise, just have a luxury tax that follows bands (40-60k is £400 / 60k-80k is £600, so on....)
Trouble with that is there are far less luxury cars than there are normal so your luxury tax will have to be in the thousands per car
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And why is that an issue? If noddy thinks driving around in a 200k car is normal then noddy can pay 4k a year road tax for all I care.
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While it wouldn't work for evs, I think they should have abolished road tax and just charged an extra 10p a litre. That way if you use the road a lot you pay for it. They could also use the mot as an indicator and do a pay by the mile approach.
What are we taxing though? It isn't "road tax" any more so it's not the use of the roads. It's not exhaust emissions based anymore so... what exactly is being taxed as that will determine what the metric should be for how much it is.
A flat rate approach indicates that it's a tax on simply owning a car. If that is correct then a flat rate for all is probably the correct method.
A flat rate approach indicates that it's a tax on simply owning a car. If that is correct then a flat rate for all is probably the correct method.
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Imo this makes a mockery of taxing evs. If older cars are going to carry on being cheap to tax, then why should ev owners get punishing. I think back dating takes the **** and is wrong, I'm sure they were going to do it years ago then changed their minds (how unusual
Older cars probably produce less CO2 over their useful lifetime than any EV ever will.