car tax

April tax hikes set to hit business drivers

More than seven in 10 business drivers have admitted they are concerned about the upcoming April tax hikes. The April reforms include the first fuel duty rise in over a […]

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 […]