Car Tax Bands

Which Road Tax Band is Your Car in?

Use the form below to find out your car CO2 emissions and hence which car tax band you are in. The form also shows you how many miles to the gallon you get. More miles to the gallon = buy less petrol.

UK Car Tax Bands Charges

The following table shows the UK Car Road Tax charges for 2006-2009, along with some common cars that are in each band. As you can clearly see the less fuel that you consume (and hence do less damage to the environment) the cheaper your car tax will be.

The 2007 budget lays out increased for the highest polluting cars (band G) who will have their car tax increased to £300 for 2007/08 and to £400 for 08/09, whilst the least polluting cars will have the duty cut to £35 (band B) or if you have a band A car will still have zero car tax.

Cars in the C-E band will have their car tax increased by £5, whilst band F will be increased by £10 to £200. Similar increases will apply the following year also.

Car Road Tax Details

The Budget Speech in 2008 by Alistair Darling announced a new car tax system for 2009-10 and 2010-11 as shown below.

Car tax is designed to try to encourage car buyers to purchase more environmentally friendly cars. When we say lower car tax for environmentally friendly cars we are simply talking about how many grams of CO2 the car will emit per km rather than its impact as a whole (manufacture cost, how recyclable it is, cost of repair). The lower the CO2 level the lower the car tax. This is a growing trend with the UK government, with fuel duty increasing to encourage better fuel efficiency, European legislation to force car companies to produce more efficient cars, and local  congestion charges that penalize gas guzzling vehicles. But will it really make a difference? The British are in love with their cars, and if someone has forked out tens of thousands of pounds on a Jaguar, are they really going to care about a few hundred pounds worth of Car Tax?