Written Question·Treasury·UIN 21047

Large Goods Vehicles: Excise Duties

Tabled: 18 December 2024
Answered: 7 January 2025

Question

James Wild

ConservativeNorth West Norfolk

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the rules on the taxation of double cab pickup trucks on (a) consumers and (b) rural communities.

Answer

James Murray
Double Cab Pick Up vehicles (DCPUs) are currently treated as goods vehicles for tax purposes, rather than cars, meaning they benefit from more generous tax treatment. A Court of Appeal judgement in 2020 determined that they must be treated as cars for cap...

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