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Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

Commons · Question 29032 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 13 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Jerome Mayhew

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the additional unit cost of processing vehicle tax payments on periods shorter than one year.

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 13 Feb 2025

Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) can be paid annually, or in monthly or 6-monthly instalments. Revenue from motoring taxes helps to fund vital public services and infrastructure, including investment in roads and transport. The cost to the exchequer is higher wh...