Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

(asked on 24th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a zero rate of vehicle excise duty for (a) electric and (b) hydrogen vehicles.


Answered by
Kemi Badenoch Portrait
Kemi Badenoch
President of the Board of Trade
This question was answered on 3rd July 2020

For the purposes of Vehicle Excise Duty, Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEVs) are nil rated, both for first year registration and annual licences.

At Budget 2020, the Chancellor announced that ZEVs registered before 1st April 2025 would also be exempt from the expensive car supplement.

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