EV £195 Road Tax April 2025 - for Evs registered 2017-April 2025

DrEskimo

facade said:

DrEskimo said:

Yea a consideration for me chopping in my 2016 EV for a 2019 EV, but not a large cost in the grand scheme of things.

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If you swap for a new sub £40K EV after 1st April, you only lose £10 having to pay for the first year tax, rather than using the free tax you get next month.

I was thinking about a Hyundai Inster, except it isn't actually cheap if I spec. it up to what I want, so I'll stick with the Citroen a while longer.

Yea good point, but I'm not a fan of buying new...I spent sub £40k on my used Model S Performance and it's substantially more car for the money than any current new sub £40k EV! Hopeful it will hold a good amount of it's value over the same period too, relative to a new EV.

Still has ~3yrs warranty on the drive-train/battery, which is also unlimited miles on the Model S. Good considering I bought it with 55k miles already, and I do around 15k miles a year.

Mildly_Miffed

SuzeQStan said:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vehicle-tax-for-electric-and-low-emissions-vehicles

So this isn’t just for new EVs - all evs registered from 2017-April 2025 - that’s pretty much all of them!

Also if your EV is RRP over 40k then there is an additional charge of £400 per annum on top the road tax for the 1st 5 years you pay road tax! 

Yes, they're joining the same flat-rate scheme as all other post-2017 cars.

It was announced LAST April, 2024, by the previous government.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vehicle-tax-for-electric-and-low-emissions-vehicles

Hoenir

DrEskimo said:

facade said:

DrEskimo said:

Yea a consideration for me chopping in my 2016 EV for a 2019 EV, but not a large cost in the grand scheme of things.

<snip>

If you swap for a new sub £40K EV after 1st April, you only lose £10 having to pay for the first year tax, rather than using the free tax you get next month.

I was thinking about a Hyundai Inster, except it isn't actually cheap if I spec. it up to what I want, so I'll stick with the Citroen a while longer.

Yea good point, but I'm not a fan of buying new...I spent sub £40k on my used Model S Performance and it's substantially more car for the money than any current new sub £40k EV! Hopeful it will hold a good amount of it's value over the same period too, relative to a new EV.

The new RFL rules are based on original list price. Until a vehicle is over 5 years old. There'll be a significant additional cost. Won't be good for resale values. 

Mildly_Miffed

Hoenir said:

The new RFL rules are based on original list price. Until a vehicle is over 5 years old. There'll be a significant additional cost. Won't be good for resale values. 

They're not "new rules".
They're the rules that were introduced eight years ago.

All that's happened is the BEV exemption's gone.

Given BEVs were 20% of the new car market last year, this probably should not come as a surprise.

DrEskimo

Hoenir said:

DrEskimo said:

facade said:

DrEskimo said:

Yea a consideration for me chopping in my 2016 EV for a 2019 EV, but not a large cost in the grand scheme of things.

<snip>

If you swap for a new sub £40K EV after 1st April, you only lose £10 having to pay for the first year tax, rather than using the free tax you get next month.

I was thinking about a Hyundai Inster, except it isn't actually cheap if I spec. it up to what I want, so I'll stick with the Citroen a while longer.

Yea good point, but I'm not a fan of buying new...I spent sub £40k on my used Model S Performance and it's substantially more car for the money than any current new sub £40k EV! Hopeful it will hold a good amount of it's value over the same period too, relative to a new EV.

The new RFL rules are based on original list price. Until a vehicle is over 5 years old. There'll be a significant additional cost. Won't be good for resale values. 

My post was about a used EV relative to a new sub-£40k model, both of which would not be subject to the additional charge for years 2-5. 

Not sure how your comment relates to mine?

NorthernSpurs

facade said:

As discussed before, you can renew your tax online in March if it expires after April, and put off paying until 1st March 2026.

I'm not sure what happens if it is due 1st April and you renew in March, whether you can choose to start it on !st of March or it will automatically start on !st April and charge you £195. If it is due on 1st April it might be safer to renew it now and put off paying until 1st Feb 2026.

I have just renewed mine (I can't stand another £195 on top of all the other February bills, so I'd rather pay in January every year- no I can't just put the money aside in January for paying in February, life doesn't work like that )

My EV car tax expires/renews on 1st April 2025. Should I be renewing in February or in March, and does it matter what date in the month I do it?

I'd assumed I could do it in March, but reading your post has me worried I need to do it now. 

facade

NorthernSpurs said:

My EV car tax expires/renews on 1st April 2025. Should I be renewing in February or in March, and does it matter what date in the month I do it?

I'd assumed I could do it in March, but reading your post has me worried I need to do it now. 

I renewed mine yesterday and it now shows as "tax due 1st February 2026" You can renew any day during the month and the tax starts from the 1st of that month. (except when it expires that month- then you'd be doing a "normal" advance renewal and the new tax would start on the 1st of the next month)

I don't know what options you have trying to renew when the renewal is actually due, i.e. whether you can (unnecessarily from DVLAs POV) renew it from the start of the current month or not.

I'd suggest renewing now, which gives you until 31st January free for definite.

Then you can renew again in March for free and get that extra month.

SuzeQStan

Mildly_Miffed said:

SuzeQStan said:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vehicle-tax-for-electric-and-low-emissions-vehicles

So this isn’t just for new EVs - all evs registered from 2017-April 2025 - that’s pretty much all of them!

Also if your EV is RRP over 40k then there is an additional charge of £400 per annum on top the road tax for the 1st 5 years you pay road tax! 

Yes, they're joining the same flat-rate scheme as all other post-2017 cars.

It was announced LAST April, 2024, by the previous government.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vehicle-tax-for-electric-and-low-emissions-vehicles

Confused is that the same link I posted?

A lot of folk we know had no clue this was happening. Whenever it was announced 

SuzeQStan

RAC article with some interesting comments on there about the subject

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/running/electric-car-road-tax-guide-do-i-need-to-pay/

KCS1503

The way that I read this is that my low emission diesel Peugeot which currently costs me nothing to tax will from 1st April be subject to a £20 tax. 

Surely I could re-tax my car in March and defer the increase until 2026 - the same as is being suggested for EVs?