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New car tax and Vehicle Excise Duty bands have been seemingly revealed for 2025 to 2026. Motoring journalist and expert Pete Barden has looked at how much you could be paying to tax your vehicle from April 1, 2026 through to April 2027.

Discussing the new rates, Pete said: "Every autumn, the September inflation data becomes a key figure for drivers - because it’s used to set the following April’s Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) rates.

"The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics confirm that the headline inflation level held steady at 3.8% in September 2025, the same as in August. While the Government typically bases VED rises on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) rather than CPI, the two measures tend to move in similar directions - and RPI is still expected to hover

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