Caravans: Excise Duties

(asked on 2nd September 2019) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of reclassifying motor caravans (M1SP SA) as light goods vehicles for the purposes of vehicle excise duty.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 9th September 2019

Since April 2017, the government has used a reformed Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) system that encourages the take-up of vehicles with low carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to help meet our legally binding climate change targets. It is right that vehicles with high CO2 emissions pay higher first year VED than those with lower emissions.

From September 2019, all multi-stage build vehicles, including motorhomes, must also record the CO2 emissions and fuel consumption on their type approval certificate. Apart from a small number of end-of-series derogations, all new registrations of multi-stage build vehicles must comply. Existing registrations are not impacted.

To provide industry and motorists with time to prepare, the change in measuring CO2 emissions was announced at Autumn Budget 2017.

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