{"id":2297,"date":"2021-11-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"im-22776"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"vehicles-exempt-from-vehicle-excise-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/vehicles-exempt-from-vehicle-excise-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicles exempt from Vehicle Excise Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), also commonly referred to as vehicle tax, is an annual tax levied on owners of most cars, vans, motorcycles, and holders of motorcycle trade licences.<\/p>\n<p>There are certain VED exemptions and discounts for people who suffer from various mobility impairments. In addition, alternative fuel vehicles receive a &pound;10 reduction on vehicle tax rates.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of vehicles exempt from vehicle tax are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vehicles used by a disabled person &ndash; an application should be made by eligible users for a disability exemption when they apply for vehicle tax. The exemption is removed if the disabled person no longer uses the vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>Disabled passenger vehicles &#8211; Vehicles (apart from ambulances) used by organisations providing transport for disabled people are exempt.<\/li>\n<li>Mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs &#8211; The law calls these &lsquo;invalid carriages&rsquo;. They must have a maximum speed of 8mph on the road&nbsp;and be fitted with a device limiting them to 4mph on footways, to be exempt.<\/li>\n<li>Historic vehicles made before 1 January 1981.<\/li>\n<li>Electric vehicles &#8211; The electricity must come from an external source, or an electric storage battery not connected to any source of power when the vehicle is moving to be exempt.<\/li>\n<li>Mowing machines<\/li>\n<li>Steam vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Vehicles used for agriculture, horticulture and forestry &#8211; This includes tractors, agricultural engines and light agricultural vehicles used off-road. It also includes &lsquo;limited use&rsquo; vehicles used for short journeys (not more than 1.5 kilometres) on the public road between land that&rsquo;s occupied by the same person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style='font-size:smaller' class='im_source'>Source: HM Government   Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), also commonly referred to as vehicle tax, is an annual tax levied on owners of most cars, vans, motorcycles, and holders of motorcycle trade licences.<\/p>\n<p>There are certain VED exemptions and discounts for people who suffer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}