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Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties

Asked by Mark SewardsLabourTreasuryTabled Answered 29 October 2024UIN 10628

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to make electric vehicle owners eligible to pay car tax.

Answered by James Murray

Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), also sometimes referred to as car tax, is a tax on car ownership from which electric vehicles are currently exempt. As announced by the previous Government at Autumn Statement 2022, from April 2025, electric and hybrid cars, vans and motorcycles will begin to pay VED in the same way as petrol and diesel vehicles.

Revenue from motoring taxes helps ensure we can continue to fund the vital public services and infrastructure that people across the UK expect.

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