New motorhome VED rates

Does the DVLA site not give you this information, sorry I can't check as I'm on a CC site and don'y have full internet access only this forum.

Information is on the DVLA website.

Motorhomes are in M1 SP (special purpose ) and will be affected by the April 2017 change. Pay extra for 5 years.

can you buy buy and register before April 1st  Thus avoiding the extra charge?

The only thing that I have seen referred to is cars. Are not motorhomes classed as 'private light goods vehicles' or 'Private Heavy Goods vehicles' depending on over or under 3,500kg? I don't know. 

Information is on the DVLA website.

Motorhomes are in M1 SP (special purpose ) and will be affected by the April 2017 change. Pay extra for 5 years.

can you buy buy and register before April 1st  Thus avoiding the extra charge?

 

Taxation Class on our Laika ( 2016 ) is PRIVATE HGV. Body Type MOTOR CARAVAN

Someone in one of the Motor Home Mags has had his registered with the CO2 figures filled in. The DVLA then used that. Tax for his vehicle is something like £800 a year and DVLA will not alter it.

I know some will say if you can afford £40k plus on a vehicle then you should be able to afford the extra road tax but this is simply a further tax on us........for no apparent reason. On a vehicle of that value you already pay more VAT than that on cheaper vehicles, why get you on the road tax as well? Add this to the fact that you'll soon have to pay even more to drive them near or in a city ( diesel engine ) then it becomes a joke. The country will grind to a holt. Mind you, the love of going away in my van will keep me at it

I find all this really quite odd. Given that much of a motorhome's life is spent either not in use at all ( between trips ) or on a site and not actually on the road, why penalise by adding an additional VED charge ? In the last 12 months we have only been " on the road " for a little over 7000 miles, hardly a large amount by any standards....  

Thanks for the replies everyone. I can foresee a rush to pre-register new vans before April and sales of 'pre-owned' vehicles go through the roof! The whole VED system looks like an over complicated nightmare designed to extract the maximum amount of money.

What's to stop MH manufacturers from selling you the base unconverted vehicle first.. You get it registered as a vehicle worth £ 25-27k or whatever .... Then you pay them to convert it to a motorhome a month or so later ?

I would have no problem at all in paying it if it could be ring fenced for road improvements. Particularly filling in some of these horrendous craters, called pot holes. That even blight our motorways. However, J2 makes a good point about distance covered. It would make far more sense if a road fund element was applied to fuel.

As far as I can see it only applies to CARS. I agree with ET, motorhomes are either PLGVs or PHGVs not CARS. I won't be changing mine so should not be effected.

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