How is road tax calculated these days?

[jayceebee]

Friend has just been charged 6500tl for annual road tax for Citroen C5.....WOW!!!

[tutor4u]

That's Cheap check out UK Road Tax.

Changes to the rates of car tax will be put into place from 1 April 2025 - and with that date fast approaching its important to know what's changing. We've broken down the key tax rises below:

Electric vehicles (EVs) are no longer exempt from paying Vehicle Excise Duty, or car tax. Although EVs registered after the 1 April date are only liable for a first-year rate of £10 until 2029, those that cost more than £40,000 will also have to pay the £425 a year 'Expensive Car Supplement', otherwise known as the luxury car tax.

EVs registered between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2025 will now have to pay the same standard rate of road tax (now £195 a year) as all other motorists.
All cars emitting between 1-50 g/km of CO2 (that's most plug-in hybrids) will see the first year tax bill rise to £110. Currently hybrids in this band pay zero VED in the first year, while petrol and diesel cars pay £10.

New cars emitting between 51-75g/km of CO2 will see car tax increase from £30 (or £20 for hybrids) to £135.
All other rates will double next year, meaning the owner of a new VW Golf 1.5 TSI will pay an extra £220 in the first year. By contrast, a new BMW X5 M60i will have £2,745 added to the cost of the first-year rate.

Standard VED rates for beyond the first year will rise in line with the Retail Price Index (RPI) as is usually the case.

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/buyi ... 0%C2%A3110.

[waddo]

Interesting if you live in the UK but I think the question related to the TRNC Road Tax guesstimates, which currently are seeming to rise to rapidly approach those of the UK - but no real explanation of why. The increase in traffic these days of poverty and high prices for all things must be earning the government a much better income, yet there are still many poor roads, lack of traffic signage, lack of parking places, half finished road improvement projects and more traffic accidents every day!

I guess the increases in road tax must go towards paying extra police to ban thousands more vehicles from the roads, yet the numbers of banned vehicles never seem to reduce? , Don’t know the answer to the question but dreading the coming 35 minute drive from Catalkoy to the other side of Ozankoy when the new road works really start!

[poppy++1]

Unread post by jayceebee » Tue 04 Mar 2025 9:27 am

Friend has just been charged 6500tl for annual road tax for Citroen C5.....WOW!!!

Lucky friend

[13roman58]

Don’t know the answer to the question but dreading the coming 35 minute drive from Catalkoy to the other side of Ozankoy when the new road works really start!

Have a trip through to Lapta strip and back,enjoy the fun.
If you don,t like what is outside your property,just change it like the Prime minister did !!!

[benjaminbutton]

Why compare with UK.? Pointless. In any case, I know locals who just don't bother and just hope they won't get caught. Car Rental prices will shoot up as well.

[frugal90]

agree nothing to do with the UK prices, but my UK Honda Jazz is £35 per year, pre April 2017.

I thought the weight of the car determined the road tax price in North Cyprus??

[alphamike]

To get back to original question, the road tax goes by the weight of the vehicle and whether petrol, diesel, hybrid etc.


I've copied this from North Cyprus Heartbeat FB page. There are other categories not listed.

Cost of Road Tax based on the weight of a vehicle per KG

Up to 1016 kg
Petrol 1.50 TL
Other than Petrol fuel 2.28 TL

1017 to 1270 kg
Petrol 2.60 TL
Other than Petrol fuel 4 TL

1271 to 1524
petrol 6.30 TL
Other than Petrol fuel 10.05 TL

Over 1524 kg
Petrol 9 TL
Other than Petrol fuel 14 TL