Subscribe to The Times
Home > Tax

Tax

Pick-up truck users face massive tax hike as HMRC changes benefit-in-kind rules

Published 13 February 2024
By Neil Briscoe
HMRC is changing the way benefit-in-kind is charged for company pickups.
BMW i4

Best company cars 2023

Company cars make up nearly 50% of all annual car sales in the UK and it’s a segment of the market that has seen huge changes.
Published 29 December 2022
Jeremy Hunt autumn statement 2022

Electric cars owners will pay 'road tax'

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has presented his Autumn Statement and confirmed that electric car owners will pay VED from 2025.
Published 17 November 2022
M6 Toll motorway booth driver POV

Fuel duty cut makes road pricing 'more urgent'

The introduction of pay-per-mile road pricing or toll roads has become more urgent with the government cutting fuel duty.
Published 25 March 2022
New higher grade biofuel risks damaging hundreds of thousands of cars

Fuel duty cut is 'drop in the ocean' for motorists

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a 5p per litre cut to fuel duty as part of an effort to combat the spiralling cost of living.
Published 23 March 2022
Urgent need for pay-per-mile road pricing, MPs say

Urgent need for pay-per-mile road pricing, MPs say

The UK must urgently introduce pay-per-mile road pricing to make up the £35bn budget shortfall created by the switch to electric cars, MPs say.
Published 04 February 2022
M6 Toll motorway booth driver POV

Toll roads could be needed to plug EV road tax gap

A new form of road pricing will be needed if the government is serious about banning petrol and diesel cars, a cross-party group of MPs has said.
Published 11 October 2019
New higher grade biofuel risks damaging hundreds of thousands of cars

Chancellor suggests fuel duty rate could soon rise

Britain's fuel duty tax rate could soon be raised for the first time in nearly a decade, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has suggested.
Published 09 April 2019
The Ford Focus was Britain's most-clamped car last year

Ford Focus was Britain's most untaxed in 2018

The Ford Focus was Britain's most frequently-clamped car for not having valid road tax in 2018, according to statistics released by the Driver an
Published 29 March 2019
Philip Hammond Budget 2018 information for car drivers: road tax, fuel duty, pothole repairs, electric cars

Budget 2018: Hammond outlines motoring plans

Chancellor Phillip Hammond has outlined his latest Budget and there is some good news for motorists.
Published 29 October 2018
Phillip Hammond budget 2017: implications and details for drivers - diesel, fuel duty, driverless cars, road tax and more

Environmental study recommends fuel duty rises

The UK Government should increase future fuel duty rates "at least in line with inflation", a new study recommends.
Published 07 June 2018
Reader Letters: Princess Anne’s Scimitar, wide cars, autonomous vehicles and taxing motorcycles

Reader Letters: The Princess's Scimitar, wide cars

In Jeremy Clarkson’s review of the Ferrari GTC4Lusso, he praised three-door sports estates, saying that Princess Anne “had” one. Make that “has”.
Published 04 December 2017
Nigel Mansell: Lewis Hamilton did nothing wrong by allegedly avoiding tax on jet

Nigel Mansell: Hamilton did nothing wrong on tax

Former Formula One world champion Nigel Mansell has told Sunday Times Driving that Lewis Hamilton has done nothing wrong by allegedly avoiding...
Published 09 November 2017