Stallion News is Written By Graham Roche-Motuel

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The updated 2025 Vehicle Insurance Disclaimer is here:-

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DVLA full list of road tax changes from April 1st 2025

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New standard road tax rate:

The standard annual road tax rate will increase from £190 to £195. This new rate will apply to all cars first registered between April 1, 2017 and March 31, 2025.

New taxes for EVs:

Road tax exemption for all EVs will end. Until this change comes into effect, EVs are exempt from all road tax, but must still be registered.

New EVs registered from April 1 will be taxed £10 in the first year (the "showroom tax"). Any EVs registered with a list price exceeding £40,000 will be subject to the "expensive car supplement" – an additional £425 per year between the second and sixth years of ownership.

EVs registered between April 1, 2017 and March 31, 2025 will be required to pay the standard rate road tax, which is set to increase to £195 per year.

However, all EVs registered before March 31, 2017 will benefit from a lower annual rate of £20.

The £10 annual discount on the standard rate road tax for alternative fuel vehicles, including hybrid, bioethanol and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cars will be discontinued from April 1. This means affected drivers will have to pay the new standard £195 annual rate.

Electric vans will also be taxed at an annual rate of £355 – the same rate applied to petrol and diesel light goods vehicles.

Tax increases for low-emission vehicles:

First-year road tax for low-emission vehicles producing between 1 and 50g/km of CO2 will rise to £110. Until this change comes into effect, hybrid cars in this band, which includes most plug-in hybrids, pay no road tax in the first year, while petrol and diesel cars in the same band paid £10.

First-year road tax for new cars emitting 51-75g/km will rise to £135. The previous rate for cars in this band was £20 for hybrids and £30 for petrol and diesel cars.

Doubling first-year rates for higher-polluting new cars:

The first-year rate for cars in all other road tax bands (producing 76g/km or more) will double. This means new cars in the highest band (those producing 255g/km or more) will be subject to a £5,490 tax in the first year.

The top rate will affect 59 new models from 24 car manufacturers, including Bentley's Continental W12, Porsche's 911 Turbo and Land Rover's Defender V8.

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  * THE TGB LINK FOR THE COL2 TRAINING SYSTEM IS:- *

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http://col2-training.toyota.co.uk:9080/COL_TRN/

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(The tutor will provide you with usernames and passwords to this screen during your course)

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