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Higher rate car tax.......

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  • Goudy
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    Most PCP deals come with a deposit contribution, but that still counts towards the £40k.

    The MRP and invoice will still be £40k+ and you will have to pay the luxury car supplement even though you might be paying less than that.
  • Can any of you good people answer a question regarding expensive car supplement?
    If you purchase a car which is liable for the extra £410 tax, is that rate fixed for the full 5 years once you've started paying or does it rise annually? March 2025 it's £410, April £425, if I tax in March 2025 I pay the extra £410 and March 2026 is it £410 or £425?
  • DE_612183
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    08Foggy55 said:
    Can any of you good people answer a question regarding expensive car supplement?
    If you purchase a car which is liable for the extra £410 tax, is that rate fixed for the full 5 years once you've started paying or does it rise annually? March 2025 it's £410, April £425, if I tax in March 2025 I pay the extra £410 and March 2026 is it £410 or £425?
    You should start your own thread otherwise people will be confused with the other questions / answers in the thread.

    And are you talking about the Road Tax you pay?
  • Sorry as this thread was talking about car tax supplement for vehicles over 40k, I'd assumed that this was the perfect place to ask the question.
  • facade
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    08Foggy55 said:
    Can any of you good people answer a question regarding expensive car supplement?
    If you purchase a car which is liable for the extra £410 tax, is that rate fixed for the full 5 years once you've started paying or does it rise annually? March 2025 it's £410, April £425, if I tax in March 2025 I pay the extra £410 and March 2026 is it £410 or £425?

    I can't imagine, for even a nanosecond, that HMRC wouldn't have linked it to "inflation" like they have with every other tax :)
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • I agree, let's force the motorist off the road. I spoke to a car dealer about this extra tax, and his opinion is it will go up every April, but he wasn't 100% sure. He also said a basic Kia Sportage was £19000 and now it's £29000. I think the 40k threshold is set to low and it's increasing with inflation. More and more mid range cars are going to be caught up in this tax.
  • Sorry correction🙄. The 40k threshold should have risen with inflation, as a 40k in 2017 was expensive, but 7 years later it's becoming more of an average price.
  • facade
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    08Foggy55 said:
    Sorry correction🙄. The 40k threshold should have risen with inflation, as a 40k in 2017 was expensive, but 7 years later it's becoming more of an average price.

    Why would they change it? Eventually every car will be £40K+ so every car will have to pay the supplement.

    Win, win, win for HMRC!
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • I'm hoping this year will be my last year of this ridiculous tax!
  • I'm struggling with their logic. They encourage every one to purchase a low emissions car with cheap road tax, and then guess what!! the road tax revenue drops (Who'd have guessed) so now they hit all drivers including EV drivers. 
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