Background Note
8.VED rates for goods vehicles licensed in the United Kingdom are being reduced and restructured to offset the cost of HGV Road User Levy rates which will begin to take effect from 1 April 2014. The Levy only applies to goods vehicles weighing 12,000kg or more, and is intended to introduce a fairer arrangement for UK hauliers by ensuring that foreign hauliers pay to use roads in the UK.
9.Goods vehicles and buses have qualified for reduced rates of VED when achieving reduced pollution requirements early, ahead of the mandatory adoption of those standards. Reduced rates first became available in 1999.