What are the road tax rates by specific type of vehicle?

Road tax is administered by the DVLA, which stands for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. The DVLA covers all regions of the UK. The DVLA's aim is to facilitate law enforcement on the road, by making sure they maintain a vehicle and driver registry as well as collecting road tax, which is sometimes called vehicle excise duty (VED).

The amount that you have to pay for VED depends on the type of vehicle you have and various features of that vehicle. The DVLA has a website at www.dvla.co.uk and the figures and tables below are taken from that website.

- Private and light goods, should they have been registered before the 1st of March 2001, will pay tax depending on the size of their engine. If it is less than 1500cc, the amount is £115 a year, and above that it is £180 a year. Should a vehicle have been registered after 1/3/2001, then the bands are based on CO2 emissions (g/km) as shown in the link below:

Vehicles registered on or after 1st March 2001

· Where Motorcycles are concerned, it again depends on their engine size. Those below 150cc pay £15 for the year, those between 151cc and 400cc pay £32, between 401cc and 600cc will be £47, and over 600c pay £64. With tricycles, an engine size of under 150cc results in a payment of £15, and anything above that is £64.

· All trade vehicles pay the same rate for road tax at £175 per year.

Private vehicles get classed into bands depending on the fule emissions:

Band A - Up to 100 (CO2 emission g/km) - NA
Band B - 101 - 120 - £35 (12 months) - NA (6 months)
Band C - 121 - 150 - £115 (12 months) - £63.25 (6 months)
Band D - 151 - 165 - £140 (12 months) - £77.00 (6 months)
Band E - 166 - 185 - £165 (12 months) - £90.75 (6 months)
Band F - OVER 185 - £205 (12 months) - £112.75 (6 months)
Band G - OVER 225 - £300 (12 months) - £165.00 (6 months)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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