{"id":428618,"date":"2025-09-16T10:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428618\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:17:16","slug":"drivers-in-england-could-face-new-car-tax-rules-in-line-with-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428618\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers in England could face new car tax rules ‘in line with Europe’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK has been told it could raise an eye-watering and frankly staggering \u00a32bn by taxing SUVs in line with European Union countries.\"DriversDrivers in England could face new car tax rules ‘in line with Europe’<\/p>\n

Drivers in England could face new car tax rules “in line with Europe” with fresh charges for bigger vehicles. The UK has been told it could raise an eye-watering and frankly staggering \u00a32bn by taxing SUVs in line with European Union countries.<\/p>\n

A thinktank says t axing Britain\u2019s SUVs in line with other European countries could raise almost \u00a32bn a year for the public purse.<\/p>\n

The Transport & Environment thinktank has urged the Labour Party<\/a> government to use the autumn budget to bring in a levy on the largest vehicles. It said said this would reflect the damage they caused to the environment and infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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Tim Dexter, T&E UK\u2019s vehicles policy manager, said the measure was a simple way to help tackle the \u00a350bn fiscal deficit in the November budget.<\/p>\n

Dexter said: \u201cA straightforward weight-based levy would make larger vehicles contribute fairly for the damage they cause to roads, safety and the environment, while protecting most family cars from added costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said: \u201cCars have, on average, increased in size over the years to reflect changing [consumer] preferences but also the need to accommodate vastly increased safety technology \u2013 as well as, most recently, new technologies such as large battery packs to deliver the range drivers expect.<\/p>\n

\u201cCharging more for heavier cars would unfairly penalise drivers and families who require a bigger vehicle for essential mobility and act as another barrier to EV uptake when the market is already under immense pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

YouGov research from earlier this year showed that 61 per cent of UK car owners consider SUVs to consume excessive space, while only 19 per cent disagree with this assessment.<\/p>\n

Environmental concerns surrounding SUVs remain pressing, with 77 per cent of newly purchased models in the UK still powered by petrol, diesel, hybrid or plug-in hybrid systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK has been told it could raise an eye-watering and frankly staggering \u00a32bn by taxing SUVs in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,8955,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-428618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-midlands-traffic-and-travel","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115213464101680969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}