Confirmed car tax changes from 1 April 2025

For cars registered after 31 March 2017:

• Electric cars will now need to pay standard-rate road tax
• New electric cars (registered after 1 April 2025) pay £10 first-year road tax, and the expensive car supplement from the second to the sixth year they're on the road if they cost over £40,000
• Standard-rate road tax has increased to £195
• The expensive car supplement has increased to £425
• No more tax discounts for hybrid cars

From 1 April 2025, the standard road tax rate is £195 for all cars registered after 1 April 2017 – petrol, diesel, hybrid and electric (it was previously £190 for petrol/diesel, with a £10 discount for hybrids, and free for electric cars).

The expensive car supplement is also increasing to £425 per year (previously £410), which you need to pay for the second to sixth year your car is on the road if it cost more than £40,000 new.

Cars registered between 1 March 2001 and 31 March 2017 are sorted into emissions-based bands for road tax every year, not just for the first year they were registered. The biggest change to taxing these cars is that cars with CO2 emissions of 0-100g/km will now pay £20 per year (previously, it was free). The rest of the bands have increased by between £5 and £25 or stayed the same.

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First-year car tax rates increase

Your first year of car tax when buying a brand-new car is paid based on emissions, so it’s different than the standard rate.

Electric cars registered after 1 April 2025 will now pay first-year road tax (a first for new EVs), and fuel-powered cars are also seeing a significant increase.

Here’s how the tax bands look for petrols, hybrids and RDE2-compliant diesels from 1 April 2025: