How much extra Vehicle Excise Duty will you pay?

In order to find out how much you will be paying you will need to do the following:

1.  Click one of the links below and download the database for the year your car was registered (usually the year it was bought new), or the new car database if you are buying a new car now or have done within the last few months.  Unfortunately older years do not cover all cars in production, however, a sizeable range of cars is covered even as far back as 2001:

Download the TaxPayers' Alliance New Car Vehicle Excise Duty Database (XLS, 2.5MB)

Download the TaxPayers' Alliance May 2007 Vehicle Excise Duty Database (XLS, 2.1MB)

Download the TaxPayers' Alliance May 2006 Vehicle Excise Duty Database (XLS, 1.9MB)

Download the TaxPayers' Alliance May 2005 Vehicle Excise Duty Database (XLS, 1.4MB)

Download the TaxPayers' Alliance May 2004 Vehicle Excise Duty Database (XLS, 887KB)

Download the TaxPayers' Alliance May 2003 Vehicle Excise Duty Database (XLS, 910KB)

Download the TaxPayers' Alliance May 2002 Vehicle Excise Duty Database (XLS, 640KB)

Download the TaxPayers' Alliance July 2001 Vehicle Excise Duty Database (XLS, 557KB)

If your car was registered before 2001 you will pay a £200 flat rate increasing in line with inflation.

2.  Scroll down the list to your car's manufacturer, model, engine description and transmission.

3.  Read across to see how much extra you will be paying.  Note that while a first year charge is included for all years, for the sake of completeness, the first year charge is only paid by the owner of a new car.

Analysis

A heavy majority of the different car models in current production will face increased taxes under the new charging structure, even compared to the 2008-09 rates:

• 88 per cent of cars will pay more under Darling's new charging structure.
• 2 per cent of cars will pay the same under Darling's new charging structure.
• 9 per cent of cars will pay less under Darling's new charging structure.

The higher rate in the first year, the "showroom tax", will apply to most cars - with only a small number paying less in the first year:

• 72 per cent of cars will pay more in the first year than in subsequent years.
• 22 per cent of cars will pay the same in the first year as in subsequent years.
• 6 per cent of cars will pay less in the first year than in subsequent years.

Notes

1. Fuel economy data is drawn from the official VCA Car Fuel Database.
2. Data on the new charging structures is from table A8 in the Budget.

Comments

[Andrew Ian Dodge]

Its not a cash grab to plug a hole in the budget...its all for mother earth...yep.

I wonder what the government will have to say about the rise in road deaths from people driving in little cars that offer no protection? Or is this another way to save the NHS money?

[Bustin' Loose]

Serves these bastards right for not thinking through the environmental impacts of their transport choices before now !!

[IanP]

This list whilst comprehensive does not show any vehicles over 2 years old.

Is there a more detailed list showing older cars, or are they exempt from this new tax grab (unlikely).

[JuliaM]

"This list whilst comprehensive does not show any vehicles over 2 years old."

This is a 'new car' tax, not a change to the existing car tax rates, isn't it..?

[Matthew Sinclair]

The measure does affect older cars. I'm afraid that the VCA only lists data for new car models. I'm not aware of a more comprehensive list. If anyone knows of a source of emissions data that will allow us to produce one I'll gladly get on the case!

[Matthew Sinclair]

To be more precise. Any car registered since 2001 pays the new rates.

[Range Rover]

A litre of petrol in a Range Rover produces the same amount of CO2 as a litre of petrol in any other small car - its just that you don't travel as far. If green taxes are about CO2 then the government should only tax petrol not the car that makes the CO2.

[Matthew Sinclair]

UPDATE: This page now includes data for older cars.

[Matthew Kelly]

The 2002 and 2003 spreadsheets don't include diesel cars. Why not?

[Matthew Sinclair]

I'm not sure. I'd guess the VCA had a more limited brief back then. This is all dependent on the data they release I'm afraid.

[JuliaM]

"Any car registered since 2001 pays the new rates."

There's going to be a big market for well maiontained pre-2001 second hand cars then!

[Barry Harding]

Pity the data base does not include Honda and Mazda - or have I missed them amongst all those unreliable other brands!
I know I will be hit hard by the dynamic duo of Brown and Darling; how about insisting only Englishmen can tax the English?

[Ian P]

I've analysed the list against % increase or decrease and there are some surprising results. A total of 17% of cars will stand still or have a reduction. If you include cars with only a 3-4% increase (what could have been expected in a normal budget?), the total is 41%, so the claim that 88% will be worse off is a little sensational? Having said that, the 4% increase group includes an Audi A8, Jag 3.5 and Merc 3.5. The 10% increase includes the Bentley range. A ford Focus 1.6 and a Skoda 1.4 will get a 21% increase. Whilts in absolute terms the smaller car owners are still paying less, the amount of pain felt by the Bentley owner, etc will be negligible.

[John Price]

Can't Find Subaru or Honda here?? Just a little confusing?? which database do you use?? Year of your vehicle's Manufacture??
John :O)

[John Price]

Hello Andrew, Just read your comment on Taxpayers Alliance.. Road Tax website...

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Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | March 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM

Serves these bastards right for not thinking through the environmental impacts of their transport choices before now !!

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Seems that you are not too bright??.. There are certain reasons that some people need a larger vehicle!!.. We have a 2.5 Litre Subaru.. a very safe and reliable vehicle.. it was registered in 2001.. but has only 60,000 miles on the clock!! So my big car does considerably LESS Mileage than many small vehicles.. My Wife is disabled and unable to get in or out of a small car.. Her wheelchair will not fit into the boot of a small car.. and it is nice to know that if some inattentive or drunken idiot ploughs into us that we may stand a better chance of survival than we would in a smaller car... You called me "A BASTARD" and put me in a box just like everyone else who drives a larger car?? That was rather thoughtless, selfish and stupid of you!! So now you are also in a box... I doubt your parents were married at your birth... Both mine and my disabled Wife's Partents were married when we were born and that I can prove.. Please have the Guts and decency to retract your comments and be man enough to apologise.. I note form your website that you are an ex PUNK??? That I think says it all.. Obviously NOT too bright... Another Box???

John :O)

p.s. If you should find the time to do some intelligent research you will discover that the "Global Warming" Scam is simply an excuse to increase taxation.. The climate changes are actually a natural cycle brought about by sunspot activity.. It has happenned in the past and will continue to happen in the future.. and schoolboy science will tell you that deforestation (To grow Biofuel crops??) is one of the main reasons along with burning of our rainforests (The lungs of the world)... as they are cut down is one of the major causes of CO2 increases.. Just in case you were not aware.. Trees breath in CO2 and breath out Oxygen!!...

[G Adlam]

I thought we were paying fuel duty on petrol as a green tax. Now he's DOUBLED my VED as well. Surely the amount of CO2 I discharge into the atmosphere depends on my annual milage / driving style, and that should be the basis of green tax. This is a tax grab dressed as a green tax.
And if I ditch my 7 year old car I get caught in the showroom tax heist. Too clever by half - the hallmark of these government ministers.
They do take us as fools.
And I suppose they have downsized their official chaffeur driven limos? Thought not.

[Matthew Sinclair]

Ian P,

I've no idea where you have got your figures from. Look at the bottom of the first, new cars, spreadsheet for the basis of our calculations showing 9 in 10 cars paying increased tax (often very high percentage increases).

Matt

[Chris Walters]

I thought people with fanatical views were frowned upon?

Clearly Mr Darling is some sort of fanatic believing that the working/middle classes need to be punished more to fund politicians and government aristocratic lifestyles.
Lets hope Joe Public stands up.

p.s John, the person calling you "a bastard" was someone by the name of Bustin Loose not Andrew, the name comes below the post not above

[Edd]

Matt,

Ian's analysis stands up perfectly. Many of the increases are relatively small circa 3-4% annually which in real terms is not an increase at all. It is very misleading to pretend that 88% of cars are paying more as in real terms this is not the case.

Edd

[Gavin]

An increase in the car tax is just another way to limit the poor from there right to movement. On minimum wage its hard to find the cost to get a legal car on the road.

Using public transport means you can only go where the public transport companies let you when they let you at the price they set.

It also means trouble finding work as shifts are varied. Keeping jobless jumpimg through goverment set hoops for their benfits.When will the 'green' supporters realise that Co2 is just another scare like the 80's acid rain or 70's ice age.

[ADRIAN]

NOT SUPRISED HE LOOKED AGAIN TO FLEECE THE MOTORIST I AM SICK OF THE EXCUSE OF GLOBAL CON WARMING ALL THE PLANETS ARE WARMING DUE TO SOLAR ACTIVITY ITS ONE BIG CON

[Lola]

Just a thought but as regards the 'showroom' tax on new cars will that not simply drive (oops pun) people to import new cars?

[John]

I hope that everyone who has commented here has written to their MP to express their outrage at the imposition of yet another stealth tax. To qualify as a green tax there has to be an equivalent reduction in another area of the tax burden - I have challenged my MP to identify this. Recall also that the carbon dioxide burden from car manufacture and scrapping is substantial; well-maintained older cars should not be scrapped.

[Andrew]

I've taken the liberty of pulling together the car tax data into a slightly more user-friendly form. In particular by using the VCA data I've been able to add in some of the older car models which the TPA spreadsheets don't seem to have. Check out http://www.vedcartax.co.uk and do let me know what you think! I'm hoping to expose the data as a webservice for others to mash up and play with in the near future.