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DVLA introduced Electronic Vehicle Licensing in 2004, allowing customers to pay vehicle excise duty online and by telephone. [5] However, customers still have the option to tax their vehicles via the Post Office. A seven-year contract enabling the Post Office to continue to process car tax applications was agreed in November 2012, with the ...
Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT), up to €5,000 is also waived for electric cars. Also, all-electric car owners pay the lowest rate of annual road tax, which is based on emissions. In addition, the first 2,000 electric cars registered in Ireland are eligible for installation of a free home-charging points worth about €1,000 (about US$1,300). [126]
Hybrid vehicles owners will pay a reduced tax (50% to 100% reduction). Electric vehicle and Classic car owners will pay no tax at all. All vehicle owners get a 10% reduction if they pay the tax before May 1 (which is the deadline for paying the vehicle tax).
Van buyers can receive 20% – up to £8,000 – off the cost of a plug-in van. [33] As plug-in car sales surged during 2014 and 2015, the PICG was extended until March 2018. The maximum grant was reduced to £4,500, and the amount granted varies according to emission levels. Hydrogen fuel cell cars became eligible for the grant.
From April 2010, the Labour government introduced a 50% income tax rate for those earning more than £150,000. Income threshold for high taxation rate on income was decreased to £32,011 in 2013. [43] The coalition government raised this allowance in years following 2014, and the 50% tax bracket was reduced to its current 45% rate. [43]
Around 1.6 million people sit the practical car test each year, with a pass rate of around 43%. The theory test has a pass rate of around 50%. [6] To become a category B (car) licence holder, candidates pay £23 for the theory test and £62 (£45.50 in Northern Ireland [7]) for the practical driving test. [8]
These small cars, limited in dimension (3.40x1.48x2.00m length, width and height) and engine displacement (660 cc or 0.66 L) are popular due to tax discounts on the excise tax (3% instead of 5% for normal vehicles), the weight tax (30% cheaper), and the insurance cost is also more than 10% lower and the annual road tax, calculated on the engine ...
The Purchase Tax was a tax levied between 1940 [1] and 1973 [1] on the wholesale value of luxury goods sold in the United Kingdom. Introduced on 21 October 1940, with the stated aim of reducing the wastage of raw materials during World War II , it was initially set at a rate of 33.33%.