Car Tax?!

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LoopyGremlin · 06/11/2026 16:25

I bought a new car last year. A perfectly normal family car- Honda CRV. Today my car tax has come in and it’s £640 for the year. It’s a hybrid car so why is it so bloody expensive? The car I replaced was a 2.2 litre diesel at £190 for the year. I know I should probably have checked before purchasing but I had no idea it would be so much!

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Somersetbaker · 06/11/2026 21:00

And I was pissed off when my diesel Insignia went from zero to £20.

JaceLancs · 06/11/2026 21:24

I’ll stick to my faithful old VW as long as I can as it’s £35 a year - I could get 50% off due to PIP mobility but haven’t bothered as it’s so low

newNannie2026 · 08/11/2026 09:11

ThisMustBeMyDream · 06/11/2026 19:40

That's the standard car tax cost now.

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I know that now. Hadnt bought a new car for 11 years tbf

Anarchy99 · 08/11/2026 12:21

Why are people advising the OP to see if she qualifies for a discount?

If she can afford the car (and fair play for that) then trying to blag some of the tax cost back is a bit of a piss-take

It clearly is the correct amount, it was just that she didn’t look it up beforehand

Badbadbunny · 08/11/2026 12:24

LoopyGremlin · 06/11/2026 17:13

Is a Honda/Toyota/VW etc a “luxury” car though? I’d say it was fairly normal car. A luxury car to me is a Merc, Porsche, Range Rover!

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The criteria is over £40k, not defined in law whether "Luxury" or not.

Just like lots of people say VAT is only on "luxury" items which isn't true either.

Of course, due to fiscal drag, more and more cars are being caught in the £40k trap as it's not rising annually, just like tax allowances/thresholds aren't rising annually.

WilliamTopazMcGonagallPoorPoetFromDundeeBeItTold · 08/11/2026 18:02

Badbadbunny · 08/11/2026 12:24

The criteria is over £40k, not defined in law whether "Luxury" or not.

Just like lots of people say VAT is only on "luxury" items which isn't true either.

Of course, due to fiscal drag, more and more cars are being caught in the £40k trap as it's not rising annually, just like tax allowances/thresholds aren't rising annually.

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True - but I think there's often a sense of something being a luxury choice that they made because they're awash with money, when often it's just the prices of quite average things going up and up.

Like with the 'mansion tax' - the amounts they usually settle on would indeed buy you a luxury mansion where I live in the Midlands; but for people in London and a lot of the South-East, that's just what family houses cost.

It seems doubly unfair when people have no choice but to hugely stretch themselves and pay (or, more likely, borrow) a fortune for something quite average... and then for them to be told that, because they managed to pay that very high price (with massive monthly mortgage repayments for decades), that must mean that they're very rich, and so they should be paying a load more in tax!

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