Calls for electric vehicle owners to pay car tax to 'replace £35billion' fuel duty loss

𝗪𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼 𝗘𝗩 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆. 

Now there is a move for EV owners to pay a road Tax to make up for the £36 billion loss in fuel duty.  

CAR TAXES may be necessary for the Government to account for the massive losses from fuel duty once the 2030 ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars come into effect.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak and the UK Government risk losing billions of pounds worth of revenue from fuel duty as sales of petrol and diesel cars slows. As the Government pushes for its goal of net zero emissions by 2050, the use of electric cars will only continue to increase.

This does come with the risk of losing billions of pounds from the sale of petrol and diesel, not only from fuel duty, but also VAT.

To cope with this massive loss, many options have been considered including increasing car taxes or even changing the tax system to charge based on use of the roads.

Howard Cox, Founder of the FairFuelUK Campaign, spoke of the available car tax options for the Government to implement.

Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, he said: “As the Alliance of British Drivers have recently announced, ‘they remain opposed to road pricing’, which they say ‘has always been intended to be more about the intrusive and regressive pricing of cars off the roads rather than providing a fair taxation system’.

𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐈 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓:

Would it not be a better idea, to introduce tax discs for cyclists!

Fuel duty has also been affected by this form of transport, so why should they get a free pass?