Large Goods Vehicles: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 21047 · Tabled 18 Dec 2024 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by James Wild
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the rules on the taxation of double cab pickup trucks on (a) consumers and (b) rural communities.
Answer
Answered by James Murray, 7 Jan 2025
Double Cab Pick Up vehicles (DCPUs) are currently treated as goods vehicles for tax purposes, rather than cars, meaning they benefit from more generous tax treatment. A Court of Appeal judgement in 2020 determined that they must be treated as cars for cap...