{"id":267267,"date":"2026-02-04T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267267\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:59:12","slug":"new-car-tax-bands-for-petrol-and-diesel-cars-registered-after-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267267\/","title":{"rendered":"New car tax bands for petrol and diesel cars registered after 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Petrol<\/a> and diesel<\/a> owners will be hit with new car tax<\/a> bills this Spring, with some motorists forced to pay \u00a3200 extra to use the roads. Vehicle Excise Duty (VED)<\/a> prices rise in line with inflation every April, with bills set to increase once again this April.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Almost all petrol, diesel and electric car owners will pay higher rates, but prices depend on when a car was first registered and its overall emissions. Cars registered after 2017 pay different prices from vehicles built between 2001 and 2017, with costs split into standard and first-year fees.<\/p>\n

Standard VED rates are applied to all cars registered after 2017 from their second year on the road, with costs rising from \u00a3195 to \u00a3200 per year<\/a> this April. However, first-year rates can vary dramatically, with some road users paying thousands of pounds to get behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

Owners of brand-new vehicles emitting over 255g\/km of CO2 are most affected, with annual costs rising from \u00a35,490 to \u00a35,690, a staggering \u00a3200 increase<\/a>. Cars emitting between 226 and 255g\/km are next, with costs rising from \u00a34,680 to \u00a34,850 per year.<\/p>\n

Prices will jump by \u00a3120 for vehicles producing between 171 and 190g\/km of CO2, as annual costs rise from \u00a33,300 to \u00a33,420. Costs then continue to rise across the board, with owners of low-polluting plug-in hybrid models not even safe.<\/p>\n

Average hybrids are likely to fall into the 111-130 g\/km of CO2 category, with year one costs rising by \u00a315 from \u00a3440 to \u00a3455. Only electric car owners are set to pay the same first-year rate as in 2025, retaining their affordable \u00a310 charge.<\/p>\n

HM Revenue and Customs<\/a> has confirmed the rises are a standard uprating in line with Retail Price Index (RPI) inflation. In 2025, first-year fees were dramatically hiked, which saw some owners charged thousands extra<\/a> as costs doubled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Petrol and diesel owners will be hit with new car tax bills this Spring, with some motorists forced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,152077,144032,54239,152080,152082,152083,111,139,69,22126,152085,152079,152081,152086,2373,152084,152076,152078],"class_list":{"0":"post-267267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-car-tax-bands","10":"tag-co2-emissions","11":"tag-diesel","12":"tag-diesel-car-tax","13":"tag-diesel-car-tax-bands","14":"tag-first-year-car-tax","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-petrol","19":"tag-petrol-and-diesel-cars","20":"tag-petrol-car-tax","21":"tag-petrol-car-tax-bands","22":"tag-ta","23":"tag-taxes","24":"tag-vehicle-excise-duty","25":"tag-vehicle-excise-duty-ved","26":"tag-vehicle-excise-duty-bands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}