All the drivers set to be stung with a 3p-per-mile car tax system in the Labour Party government's Autumn Budget have emerged. Under current plans, to be announced by the Chancellor on November 26, drivers of electric cars will be charged 3p per mile on top of other road taxes.
Up to six million people are set to be driving EVs by the time the tax comes in. Tanya Sinclair, CEO of Electric Vehicles UK, warned pay-per-mile car tax was a consistently mooted system.
Speaking to GB News, she said: "Today's vehicle parc looks nothing like it did when emissions-based VED was introduced. There's no doubt the system needs fundamental reform.
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"The real question is how. The Government must take the time to consult properly, design carefully and communicate transparently, a process that will take years, not months."
"Rumours about pay-per-mile only unsettle drivers and risk slowing the very market we need to grow," she said.
Responding to the shake-up, one motorist sniped on social media: "All the EV car manufacturers are losing business and some going broke…..we will have no industry left….doing this, Rachel, will kill the motor industry…so glad I haven't got an electric car!!!"
A second said: "The large percentage of ICE car fires are actually cars stolen and burnt out. When an ICE car burns it can often be extinguished with a hand held. When an EV battery goes nothing can stop it, even total emersion in water.
"When an EV battery housing is scratched it can write off the car, as no-one will certify the battery as safe. There are "myths" on both sides, and delusion on one."
Another said: "That’s a common but misguided argument. Falling fuel and tobacco duty was predicted years ago — every Treasury has planned for it. The aim isn’t to punish drivers or vapers but to modernise how we fund public services as behaviour changes.
"EVs aren’t being “taxed”; they’re simply joining the same system as petrol cars. A £10–£20 road tax rise is fairness, not a raid. Energy prices aren’t “the highest in the world” either — they spiked after Russia’s war and privatised market failure, not Labour policy.
"And the “black market boom” idea is nonsense. People prefer safe, regulated products to dodgy fakes. Lower fuel and tobacco sales are a sign of progress — not a reason to panic."
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