{"id":78467,"date":"2017-01-30T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ac749cd632f198cb5a5870e63eaba3df"},"modified":"2017-01-30T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:00:05","slug":"news-story-new-vehicle-tax-rates-from-1-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78467","title":{"rendered":"News story: New vehicle tax rates from 1 April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The change won\u2019t affect any vehicles registered before April, but drivers can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/vehicle-tax-rate-tables\">check the vehicle tax rates<\/a> to make sure they know what they need to pay.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-rates-explained\">The rates explained<\/h3>\n<p>Vehicle tax for the first year is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/vehicle-tax-rate-tables\/vehicles-registered-on-or-after-1-april-2017\">CO2 emissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the first year, the amount of tax that needs to be paid depends on the type of vehicle. The rates are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a3140 a year for petrol or diesel vehicles<\/li>\n<li>\u00a3130 a year for alternative fuel vehicles (hybrids, bioethanol and LPG)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a30 a year for vehicles with zero CO2 emissions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"new-vehicles-with-a-list-price-of-more-than-40000\">New vehicles with a list price of more than \u00a340,000<\/h3>\n<p>If a vehicle has a list price (the published price before any discounts) of more than \u00a340,000, the rate of tax is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/vehicle-tax-rate-tables\/vehicles-registered-on-or-after-1-april-2017\">CO2 for the first year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the first year, the rate depends on the type of vehicle (petrol, diesel, alternative fuel or zero emissions) and an additional rate of \u00a3310 a year for the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>After those 5 years, the vehicle will then be taxed at one of the standard rates (\u00a3140, \u00a3130, or \u00a30, depending on vehicle type).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"follow-the-story\">Follow the story<\/h3>\n<p>Drivers can follow DVLA on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/DVLAgovuk\">Twitter<\/a> or <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dvlagovuk\">Facebook<\/a>, or <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dvlagov\">watch our YouTube channel<\/a> to keep up-to-date with the changes to vehicle tax.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hbV7Yfud1dE\">YOUTUBE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way vehicle tax is calculated will change for cars and some motor homes that are first registered with DVLA from 1 April 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}