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Drivers will be EXEMPT from new car tax rises thanks to a little-known exemption. Labour Party Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that she wanted to reform motoring taxes, including exempting search and rescue vehicles from Vehicle Excise Duty.

Ms Reeves has thanked two Labour MPs for their support in calling for the tax exemptions. Ms Reeves thanked Torcuil Crichton, who represents Na h-Eileanan an Iar (formerly Western Isles) in Scotland, and the MP for Whitehaven and Workington, Josh MacAlister.

The Government will exempt search and rescue vehicles from VED, and will work with stakeholders to "design and implement an exemption" from April 2027.

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Josh MacAlister described it as a "campaign

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