Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties

(asked on 16th September 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will raise the expensive car supplement threshold for electric and zero emission vehicles.


Answered by
Dan Tomlinson Portrait
Dan Tomlinson
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 13th October 2025

As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the government recognises the disproportionate impact of the current VED Expensive Car Supplement threshold for those purchasing zero emission cars and will consider raising the threshold for zero emission cars only at a future fiscal event, to make it easier to buy electric cars.

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