Autumn Budget – How will it affect your vehicle?
If you’ve been watching or listening to the news today then you will know that chancellor Jeremy Hunt had plans to announce the tory party’s autumn budget.
For vehicles, there wasn’t that much to report about, but one huge thing to take note of is that from 2025 electric vehicles will no longer be exempt from paying road tax, this is to make taxing “Fairer” says Jeremy Hunt.
For years EV (electric vehicle) drivers have loved the benefit of not needing to pay road tax, but as the UK is aiming for zero new petrol and diesel car sales from 2030 it only seems fair to start taxing what will soon be the majority of vehicles on roads rather than the minority. That’s not to say petrol and diesel won’t still need to pay, they most certainly will. But this now means that more money will be put back into the maintenance of all UK highways and roads.
From April 2025, Benefit in Kind (BiK) rates for Electric and Ultra-Low Emission cars emitting less than 75g/km of CO2 will increase by 1% annually, up to a maximum of 5% for Electric or 21% for Ultra-Low Emission cars respectively in 2027/28. Rates for all other vehicle bands will increase by 1% up to a maximum of 37% in 2025/26, then freeze for the next two years.
This means that on a £50k EV, BIK costs would currently be:
£50,000 x 2% = £1000
20% tax payer = £200 per year = £16.67 per month
40% tax payer = £400 per year = £33.33 per month
Even by the time it reaches the 5% BIK level in 2027/28 it’s still fantastic value for an EV, which secures the future of EVs as company cars and also the strength of salary sacrifice as a competitive product:
£50,000 x 5% = £2500
20% tax payer = £500 per year = £41.67 per month
40% tax payer = £1000 per year = £83.33 per month
Still more competitive than even an entry level, budget internal combustion car.
What else came from the budget?
As many of us are still feeling the pinch from the pandemic and more recently this year the war in Ukraine, we have all seen our energy bills jump at an extraordinary rate. Mr Hunt announced that the help on energy bills will be extended, but alas not as generous as it has been. Currently, households have been given £400 to help tackle the rising cost of gas and electricity, but this is set to lessen.
Energy Firms have also been warned that their windfall tax will be increased from 25% to 35%.
The income tax threshold has also been amended from £150,000 to £125,140, allowing those who earn £150,000 or more to pay just over £1,200 more in tax a year.
The national living wage is also due to increase next year by 9.7% meaning a new hourly rate of £10.42.
Let’s be honest, the last few years have been tough, and yes many of us went into 2022 thinking we were past the worst of it, but unforeseen circumstances like the war in Ukraine and global shortages will alas have an effect on us all for the foreseeable future.
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