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  2025 car tax VED rates: What you need to know about First Year Rates and more essential information
  Any change to VED (vehicle excise duty) is likely to cause cold sweats for motorists, and changes to 2025 car tax VED rates introduced by Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of The...
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  2025 VED First Year Rates announced: Big changes for showroom tax, all non-EVs hit heavily
  The new Labour government’s budget will see first year vehicle excise duty (VED) rates increase for all cars from 1 April 2025. Now, electric cars are liable for the charge...
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  Your guide to statutory off-road notification (SORN)
  At some point, you might need to declare your car as off the road, especially if you won’t being using it for an extended period. Maybe you’re going travelling, or...
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  How do I claim my road tax reduction? A guide to eligibility, application, and the process
  Being a driver with a disability means you could be eligible for a 50% road tax reduction if you receive the PIP standard rate mobility component. But that’s not all...
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  Guide to car salary sacrifice scheme
  There are loads of different ways to buy or lease a new car, but one you might not have heard of is a salary sacrifice. It’s not available to everyone,...
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  Best used cars with free road tax
  Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), better known as road tax has been used as a way of encouraging beneficial driver behaviours – smaller engines, lower emissions or paying more for more...
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  Best used cars that cost £20 a year to tax
  Car tax is one of the most visible ways motorists pay the government for the use of their car. Like many taxes, Vehicle Excise Duty (VED)or ‘road tax’ isn’t straightforward....
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  How to tax a car online
  It used to be that you had to stand in line at the Post Office to tax our cars, which could be a proper hassle. So the prospect of being...
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  BIK slashed on electric cars in latest tax changes
  In this year’s Budget it was announced that electric cars will pay no tax whatsoever. This means that you can expect to see a lot more electric cars on the...
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  Road tax: First year losers
  Choosing which new car to buy, based on the yearly road tax prices, is a sensible way of cutting your running costs. As well as the yearly road tax bill you...
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  Estates with no showroom tax
  Many people these days are looking for cars with low running costs, but what if you need some space too? If you slot into that category it might be worth checking...
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  Cheap to tax family estates
  As the cost of running a car has constantly increased, how much tax you have to pay has become more important than ever. With fuel prices unlikely to fall below £1.30 per...
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  How much road tax will you pay?
  Road tax can be confusing, especially when the goalposts are regularly moved by the government to promote different motoring policies. Road tax, or Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) as it’s formally...
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  Road Tax and the cost of fuel WILL be issues at the next election
  Readers of Parker’s are concerned about the cost of Road Tax and fuel and are willing to switch their vote to a party that will cut them – according to an exclusive...
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  DVLA forced to improve service
  An undercover investigation by Parker’s has prompted the DVLA to improve the way it answers public road tax enquiries. The shake-up aims to provide ‘consistent and accurate information’ and a dedicated Budget Line, operated...
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  Road Tax change U-Turn expected in Pre-Budget Report
  Controversial road tax plans – due to come into force in March 2009 – could be abandoned as part of a tax shake-up next week. The Government has signalled that changes to the road tax...
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  Crackdown on illegal foreign vehicles
  The Government’s motoring authority has set up checkpoints in Harwich and Portsmouth to check the details of hundreds of passing cars and more ports are set to follow. The law states that any...
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  New road tax powers for the DVLA
  The Government authority was handed more clout under a legislative shake-up, meaning officers can now take action against untaxed vehicles parked off the public road, such as in council-owned car...
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  Lib Dem's £2000 road tax plan
  Liberal Democrats have revealed radical plans to charge gas guzzlers up to £2000 for road tax to ‘transform Britain’s transport system.’ A fair deal for motorists?  In Fast Track Britain: Building a...
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  Southerners stung by UK’s highest road tax hike
  Drivers in Kingston-upon-Thames will pay more than those in Kingston-upon-Hull under the April 2009 road tax shake-up, opening up a North-South divide. Using official regional registration figures, obtained from the House of Commons Library, Parker’s has discovered that...

Most popular articles

• 
  2025 car tax VED rates: What you need to know about First Year Rates and more essential information
  Any change to VED (vehicle excise duty) is likely to cause cold sweats for motorists, and changes to 2025 car tax VED rates introduced by Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of The...
• 
  How do I claim my road tax reduction? A guide to eligibility, application, and the process
  Being a driver with a disability means you could be eligible for a 50% road tax reduction if you receive the PIP standard rate mobility component. But that’s not all...
• 
  Best used cars that cost £20 a year to tax
  Car tax is one of the most visible ways motorists pay the government for the use of their car. Like many taxes, Vehicle Excise Duty (VED)or ‘road tax’ isn’t straightforward....
• 
  2025 VED First Year Rates announced: Big changes for showroom tax, all non-EVs hit heavily
  The new Labour government’s budget will see first year vehicle excise duty (VED) rates increase for all cars from 1 April 2025. Now, electric cars are liable for the charge...
• 
  Guide to car salary sacrifice scheme
  There are loads of different ways to buy or lease a new car, but one you might not have heard of is a salary sacrifice. It’s not available to everyone,...
• 
  Best used cars with free road tax
  Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), better known as road tax has been used as a way of encouraging beneficial driver behaviours – smaller engines, lower emissions or paying more for more...
• 
  Your guide to statutory off-road notification (SORN)
  At some point, you might need to declare your car as off the road, especially if you won’t being using it for an extended period. Maybe you’re going travelling, or...
• How much road tax will you pay?
  Road tax can be confusing, especially when the goalposts are being moved by the Government in a bid to promote greener motoring. In March 2005 the focus shifted towards CO2 emissions...
• 
  How to tax a car online
  It used to be that you had to stand in line at the Post Office to tax our cars, which could be a proper hassle. So the prospect of being...
• New road tax powers for the DVLA
  The Government authority was handed more clout under a legislative shake-up, meaning officers can now take action against untaxed vehicles parked off the public road, such as in council-owned car...
• Road Tax and the cost of fuel WILL be issues at the next election
  Readers of Parker's are concerned about the cost of Road Tax and fuel and are willing to switch their vote to a party that will cut them - according to an exclusive...
• Southerners stung by UK’s highest road tax hike
  Drivers in Kingston-upon-Thames will pay more than those in Kingston-upon-Hull under the April 2009 road tax shake-up, opening up a North-South divide. Using official regional registration figures, obtained from the House of Commons Library, Parker's has discovered that...
• 
  BIK slashed on electric cars in latest tax changes
  In this year’s Budget it was announced that electric cars will pay no tax whatsoever. This means that you can expect to see a lot more electric cars on the...
• 
  Road tax: First year losers
  Choosing which new car to buy, based on the yearly road tax prices, is a sensible way of cutting your running costs. As well as the yearly road tax bill you...
• Parker's exposes DVLA road tax incompetence
  An undercover Parker’s investigation has revealed that the DVLA could be giving misleading and inaccurate information to as many as three-in-four motorists. Following a tip-off from a Parker’s reader about mistakes...
• Beat the Chancellor at his own game
  The Chancellor is tightening his grip on cars and drivers. His aim is to make us cleaner and greener motorists, and make the heavier polluters pay more. To help lower your...
• Thousands of car buyers are paying too much road tax
  Buyers looking to slash road tax costs by downsizing should do their research before completing a deal - or face paying over the odds for their tax discs in future.
• Government finds numbers taxing
  Following months of speculation, the Government has finally confirmed what thousands of families have feared: road tax will be made retrospective from 2009. Parker's has conducted research that shows more...