Could well be. It does seem a slightly odd tax when you consider the idea was to use electric vehicles to be more environmentally friendly (yeah I know there’s an argument about that, but that’s not my point) hence tax breaks for buying or leasing them and yet they then add tax for using them. Probably reasonable given the issues of damage to roads using heavier electric vehicles, problems putting them out when they catch fire etc. It’s just the issue of different taxes seeming to cancel each other out that seems odd.
You still get a tax break for owning an electric car, the pay per mile charge they’re introducing is still way less than the average fuel duty per mile that an ICE vehicle pays. The tax breaks were an incentive to get people to switch but there was always going to be a tipping point where take up was high enough that the lost tax revenue would need to be addressed.
Lots of grumbling this morning (not on here) about EV's no longer being a cheap option. Oh, so you didn't buy one for environmental reasons then?
