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Large Goods Vehicles: Taxation

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Question for Treasury

UIN 903676, tabled on 2 April 2025

Question

Margaret Mullane
Labour
Dagenham and Rainham
Commons

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will postpone changes to the taxation of double-cab pick-up trucks for 12 months.

Answer

James Murray
Labour
Ealing North
Commons

Answered on

8 April 2025

Following a judgement by the Court of Appeal, Double Cab Pick Ups must be treated as cars, rather than goods vehicles, for certain tax purposes, based on their primary suitability.

The government has no plans to legislate to postpone the change and treat DCPUs as goods vehicles, as this would depart from the broader principles underpinning the Court of Appeal’s judgement, and be a significant tax break worth hundreds of millions per year.

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