Posted on 04/11/2016 19:52
We are looking to buy a new motorhome next spring but are concerned that we will be lumbered with the excessive VED rates for vehicles costing over £40,000 due to be introduced in April 2017. Can anyone enlighten us as to whether the extra £310 on top of the flat rate £140 will apply to motorhomes? All the dealers say "don't worry, it doesn't apply" but they're not the ones who are going to have to pay £450 a year for five years!
Posted on 05/11/2016 09:13
Table 1 – Vehicles included in the new scheme
Category M
Category M1
Category M1 Special purpose (M1SP)
Category M1 (M1G)
Category De nition
Motor vehicles with at least four wheels designed and constructed for the carriage of passengers
Vehicles designed and constructed for the carriage of passengers and comprising no more than eight seats in addition to the driver’s seat.
Passenger carrying vehicles which
are designed and constructed for special purposes. Vehicles which are type approved as M1 Special Purpose are as follows:
• motor homes/caravans
• ambulances
• wheelchair accessible vehicles • armour-plated vehicles, and
• hearses
Designed for off road use and meeting designed criteria.
Posted on 05/11/2016 09:18
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....
I agree, we only do just over 2000 miles a year in ours. Mind you, we're not planning on changing it for a very long time yet so it'll be a while before the new tax hits us hopefully.
Posted on 05/11/2016 19:30
SteveL Re; “…It would make far more sense if a road fund element was applied to fuel.”
Please!!, please!!! do not encourage any chancellor to go down that route, because the next one to come along or even the same
one will notice the lack of VED and re-impose it without reducing the element already imposed on fuel.
Posted on 06/11/2016 12:07
Motorhome Matters Forum has a useful thread running on this topic including informed comment from the DVLA on motorhomes. In simple terms, if the dealer registers a new van correctly, then my understanding is the new rules will not apply to motorhomes.
I think that was a similar conclusion came to in the letter mentioned by Brue above. It seems if emissions are omitted from the certificate of conformity it won't be registered in the same way as a car?
David
Posted on 07/11/2016 20:08
Hi,
According to a pdf I've seen produced by DVLA if there are no emmisions declared then it will be PLG. If there is an emission figure declared then it will be in the M1SP category so will be subject to the much higher VED.
Google "DVLA VED from April 2017" and you should see the pdf link in the results.
Rgds
JOHN
RAPIDAIR65
Caravanner