This has been kept pretty quiet, hasn't it?)

Based on vehicle emissions there is a 3 tier band with the zero emissions paying nothing and the highest paying... lots!

https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/motoring/cars/using/2016/ved-car-tax-changes-2017

 

What are the new car tax rules?

 

Essentially, the changes mean that future VED rates will be on a new three-tier system from 1 April 2017. The new scheme will be based on the vehicle’s emissions and list price:

• Zero emissions cars won’t pay any VED.

 

•A standard rate of £140 will apply for all other cars, regardless of how high their emissions are (except for alternative-fuel vehicles like hybrids, bi-ethanol and liquid petroleum gas, which will enjoy a £10 discount and pay £130 a year). However, the First Year Rate (FYR) will be a sliding scale depending on how polluting a car is. This one-off payment rate starts at £10 for the first year, rising to a whopping £2,000 for the worst offenders. The full list of First Year Rates can be seen below, or you can get more information at gov.uk.

 

The good news is, that it doesn't affect your existing vehicle, but if you are planning on purchasing a new one after 1 April 2017.. it could cost you.

 

If you don’t want to incur a substantial car tax supplement , here are 20 cars you should think very carefully about before buying – these are 2017’s biggest VED losers. We’ve looked at the cost over a six-year period because the £310 'premium' supplement for cars over £40,000 applies for the first five years that the standard rate is payable, after the separate first year charge.

 

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/topten/top-20-cars-hit-hardest-by-the-2017-ved-changes/

You will find more about this on the gov.uk link

 

General description of the measure

 

This measure reforms Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) for cars first registered from 1 April 2017 onwards. First Year Rates (FYRs) of VED will vary according to the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of the vehicle. A flat Standard Rate (SR) of £140 will apply in all subsequent years, except for zero-emission cars for which the SR will be £0. Cars with a list price above £40,000 will attract a supplement of £310 on their SR for the first 5 years in which a SR is paid. All cars first registered before 1 April 2017 will remain in the current VED system, which will not change. The new rates and bands for the post-2017 VED system are set out in the table in the link below:

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vehicle-excise-duty/vehicle-excise-duty

 

....If you don’t want to incur a substantial car tax supplement, here are 20 cars you should think very carefully about before buying..

will do, was going to buy the audi RS6!...but wont be able to afford the extra 1.4k having spent 80k on it..

A WASTED OPPORTUNITY, There is no incentive to run lower emission cars as the first year tax cost will be just a drop in the ocean compared with the cost of a 5 litre fully audio/phone/tv equipped tonka toy. It should be tapered by, say , 10% per year after the first to have any real effect on the emissions problem.

Why shouldn't low emission vehicles be taxed at some level? They wear out the roads just as much as anyone else. If everyone bought vehicles that incur no tax how are the government going to fund the road infrastructure. In a few years time we will be told - just like diesel owners - that we will have to "cough up" or be vilified in some other way. BTW I run a tax free car.

apparently, up to a few yrs ago, about a quarter of car tax went on roads mostly the strategic road network (eg motorways). (autoexpress.co.uk).

councils maintain their own roads. though their expense on that may partly come from central funding (part of which might come from car tax, (car tax goes to the exchequer)) in addition to council tax.

what are the latest figures?

Just got a new car, well new to me and could not understand why the road tax was costing more then the old one which was a 2 litre diesel Kia Carens CRDI GS5, on a 2008 plate, cost was £170 a year or £16 a month, the new one is a 1.6 Petrol Hyundai Matrix on a 2007 plate with 32 thousand miles on the clock and going cost me £270 a year and around £25 a month I think, will double check!

the real question is what emissions problem will be solved by taxing a vehicle a tenner a year more? How many lives will be saved by this new tax? When you consider the make up of the particulates in the air inplaces like central ondon the amount contributed by diesel powered private vehicles as exhaust emissions is actually quite small. Also, if you want to cut down on greenhouse gases petrol and even alternative fuel vehicles woulf have a higher rate of duty than diesel but the governamnt, like all other previous govs have moved the goalposts again so that only one type of emission is measured.

The research data has been available for donkeys years as to where the particulates come from but that is glossed over as the only real interest is taxation and the old mantra of if it is enjoyable or bad for you then tax it applies.

So, what causes most of the PM20's and PM 2.5's in cities? BUSES (oh alright, other large commercial vehicles as well but the buses produce more per mile). You know, those big things that labour voters claim to love so you are being choked to death because of political grandstanding and hatred dressed up as an environmental issue.