Even if your car tax isn’t due soon, you should re-tax your EV on March 31 to get another whole year of Vehicle Excise Duty, as it’s properly known, for £0.
“Do you have an electric vehicle? If so there’s a trick to get a year tax-free,” he said.
“From the 1st of April, EV owners will start paying Vehicle Excise Duty – road tax as it used to be commonly known, it isn’t it’s Vehicle Excise Duty – which will be £100+.
“But if you re-tax now on gov.uk it’s free. So you get a year from the date that you re-tax. So, you might want to leave it ’til the last day of March and then it would be perfect but if you just want to do it, do it now and you get a year longer.
“Now the crucial thing of this is, you can re-tax at any time, even if you only did it two months ago. You can do it again now. You have to pay each time, but it’s currently free so there’s nothing to pay.”
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Car tax changes from April 2025
From April 1 2025, new car tax rules will see cars registered after 2017 will pay the standard road tax rate of £195, up from £190.
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Those registered between 1985 and 2001 will continue to pay Vehicle Excise Duty based on the size of their engine, with those greater than 1549cc having to pay £360 to use the roads, up from £345.
Those registered between March 1 2001 and March 31 2017 are sorted into emissions-based bands and costs are up across all categories – with models emitting over 255g/km of CO2 charged up to £25 more.
Owners of electric, zero, or low emission cars will no longer be exempt from car tax from April. Those registered on or after the 1st of next month will pay the lowest first year rate of vehicle tax set at £10, but will pay the standard rate thereafter at £195. Those registered between April 1 2017 and Mach 31 2025 will pay the standard £195 rate.
