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Written by Paul Horrell
Road tax is changing, and the formula is getting more complex. From 1 April 2017, there"s a new system for vehicle excise duty. That"s what we used to call the tax disc - but there"s no paper disc any longer.The system is made up of three elements. In the first year, the duty is a sliding scale, based on homologated emissions. It runs from zero for zero-emissions cars to (gulp) 2,000 for anything over 255g/km.But every year after that, there"s no emissions element. It"s a flat fee, called standard rate", of 140. (Well, there"s almost no emissions element: zero-emissions cars are 0, but even 1g/km pulls you into the 140 territory).The third element is that from years two to six, any car costing more than 40,000 when registered is hit with a 310 supplement.The figures look like this:
Date written: 16 Mar 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7089
Road tax is changing, and the formula is getting more complex. From 1 April 2017, there"s a new system for vehicle excise duty. That"s what we used to call the tax disc - but there"s no paper disc any longer.The system is made up of three elements. In the first year, the duty is a sliding scale, based on homologated emissions. It runs from zero for zero-emissions cars to (gulp) 2,000 for anything over 255g/km.But every year after that, there"s no emissions element. It"s a flat fee, called standard rate", of 140. (Well, there"s almost no emissions element: zero-emissions cars are 0, but even 1g/km pulls you into the 140 territory).The third element is that from years two to six, any car costing more than 40,000 when registered is hit with a 310 supplement.The figures look like this:
Date written: 16 Mar 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7089
