{"id":80317,"date":"2017-03-31T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6830154ba3beec76744a0726f3f670af"},"modified":"2017-03-31T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T23:15:00","slug":"press-release-new-vehicle-tax-rates-come-into-force-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80317","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New vehicle tax rates come into force today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added translation<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Under the new rates, all vehicles will continue to be taxed for the first time based on their CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n<p>After this, the amount of tax to pay will depend on the type of vehicle. The new standard 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<p>There is an additional payment of \u00a3310 per year for 5 years (from the second time the vehicle is taxed), if the vehicle has a list price of more than \u00a340,000 at first registration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-vehicle-tax-rates-from-1-april-2017\">More information<\/a> on the changes is also available.<\/p>\n<p>These changes do not affect cars registered before 1 April 2017 \u2013 but their rate of tax has increased today in line with the Retail Price Index.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_1075\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">DVLA Press Office<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLongview Road<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMorriston<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSwansea <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">SA6 7JL <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:press.office@dvla.gsi.gov.uk\">press.office@dvla.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone (only for use by journalists and the media):<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 123 0791\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone (out of office hours \u2013 only for use by journalists and the media):<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 123 2407\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New vehicle tax rates come into force for all cars and some motor homes that are registered from today (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\/80317"}],"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=80317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80324,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80317\/revisions\/80324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}