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What does this car cost to tax?

Enter a registration. We read the live DVLA record, work the rate out from Schedule 1 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act, and show you the reasoning, not just a number.

Free, no account. Northern Ireland registrations work too.

Traced, not asserted

Every figure links to the statute it comes from and the V149 table it was cross checked against.

Honest when the record is thin

Where DVLA holds no usable figure, or two rates are legitimately possible, we say so and show both rather than pick one and sound confident.

Effective dated

Rates change every April. The engine holds each year separately, so the page shows what is in force now rather than what used to be.