Uneven Road Ahead - Making Road Tax Fair Again
30/10/2024

Uneven Road Ahead - Making Road Tax Fair Again

Michael Dnes

 

Motoring tax has a reputation as too dangerous to touch. Even at the Budget, the Chancellor deferred a planned 7p fuel duty rise at a cost of £3.0 billion, rather than deal with the impact on family budgets.

But this may not prevent an explosion. Even with fuel duty steady, there is a growing challenge in the disparity between the treatment of petrol and diesel vehicles and their electric successors.

In a new report, head of transport policy Michael Dnes explores:

- Why motoring tax is so challenging to change, and how the gap between electric and conventional vehicles risks becoming a dividing line between drivers.

- Whether a growing public awareness of the accidental differences between tax treatment create a mandate for reform.

- A new generational shift in attitudes towards motoring taxation, as well as many of the issues that have animated past debate.

- Whether now, when electric vehicles are new and few in number, is a window for painless reform that can forestall a culture war over the future of motoring.

 

Download the full report below

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