car tax

Drivers call for car tax system reform

Nearly a quarter of drivers believe the car tax system is unfair, with almost a third believing it should be based on annual mileage. A survey of 2,000 drivers commissioned […]

HMRC reveals rise in company cars

New statistics from HMRC have revealed a rise in company cars, with the number of employers paying company car tax up to 840,000 in 2023-24. This is up from the […]

Drivers in the dark about rising VED rates

Fewer than 50% of drivers are aware that first-year rates for Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) are rising on 1 April. VED is the yearly tax on all vehicles that use […]

Police seize over 200,000 vehicles

More than a quarter of a million vehicles were taken off UK roads last year. According to a new Freedom of Information request by National Scrap Car, 214,051 cars were […]

Drivers still paying tax on stolen vehicles

A Freedom of Information (FoI) request to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) by Claims Management & Adjusting (CMA), has revealed that 17,086 UK motorists are still paying tax […]

Industry body calls for clarity around EV tax plans

The Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP) has urged the government to make benefit-in-kind taxation tables for electric vehicles (EVs) available through to the end of the decade. Information has only […]

EV running costs half that of petrol cars

New research has found that the annual cost of running an electric car is nearly half that of a petrol equivalent. A study carried out by comparethemarket estimated that it […]

Number of tax-exempt cars to drop

It has been estimated that the number of tax-exempt cars will be slashed from around 445 to 13 in 18 months’ time under new car tax plans. This means that […]