Everything on the site, in one list

Car tax

• Car tax ratesEvery vehicle excise duty band in force, with the surcharges.
• Car tax calculatorCO2, fuel and first registration date give the twelve month cost.
• First year ratesWhat a brand new car pays for its first twelve months.
• Standard rateThe flat rate every post 2017 car pays from its second licence.
• Expensive car supplementThe list price surcharge, and the higher threshold for electric cars.
• Electric car taxWhat changed on 1 April 2025 and what an electric car pays now.
• Bands A to MThe lettered CO2 bands for cars registered between 2001 and 2017.
• Pre 2001 engine sizeTwo bands, decided by engine capacity and nothing else.
• SORNTaking a car off the road, and the one journey still allowed.
• Rate changesA dated log of what moved and when, back to April 2025.
• Van tax ratesThe full light goods vehicle rate table for this tax year.
• Motorcycle tax ratesEvery engine size band for motorcycles and tricycles.
• Motorhome tax ratesThe complete rates and the registration rules that select them.
• Historic vehicle taxCheck the rolling exemption and when a vehicle qualifies.
• How to tax a carUse a V11, V5C, new keeper slip or the replacement route.
• V5C logbookReplacement, purchase and sale steps for the registered keeper document.
• Lost V5C logbookThe current fee, delivery time and replacement routes.
• New keeper slipUse the green V5C/2 to tax a vehicle after buying it.
• Selling a carTell DVLA, hand over the green slip and end the old tax.
• Buying without a V5CThe risks, form V62 and the missing immediate tax route.

Clean air zones

• Every UK zoneAll fifteen charging zones, their standards and what they cost.
• ULEZ checkerFuel and year in, a verdict for every zone out. No registration needed.
• Charges comparedThe full matrix: every zone against every vehicle type.
• Exemptions and discountsWho does not pay, and which exemptions have to be applied for.
• How to pay and appealDeadlines, penalties and the grounds a challenge can rest on.
• Euro emissions standardsEuro 1 to Euro 7, the limits and the dates they became compulsory.

Number plates

• Plate age decoderReads the age identifier and the issuing region out of any UK plate.
• Plate rulesSpacing, fonts, flags, 3D and 4D plates, and what is not legal.
• Private platesHow a transfer works, what it costs and what it cannot do.

Speeding and penalties

• Speeding finesThe Sentencing Council bands, worked against your weekly income.
• Penalty pointsEvery endorsement code, how long it lasts and when 12 becomes a ban.
• Penalty charge noticesCouncil notices and private parking charges kept separate.
• PCN amountsLondon and outside London amounts, discounts and deadlines.
• Appeal a PCNCouncil representations and the independent tribunal routes.
• Private parking chargesContract claims, operator appeals, POPLA and the IAS.
• Bus lane finesAmounts, payment windows and challenges for bus lane notices.

Company car tax

• Company car tax calculatorP11D value, CO2 and electric range give the yearly benefit in kind.
• Appropriate percentagesHMRC's tables for 2025/26, 2026/27 and 2027/28 side by side.
• Electric company carsWhy an electric company car is still the cheapest one to be given.

Running costs

• Yearly running costsFuel, tax, insurance and servicing on one page, with the sources.
• Fuel cost calculatorA journey in miles or kilometres, priced at today's pump.
• Fuel pricesThis week's UK average for petrol and diesel, from DESNZ.
• EV charging costHome against public charging, with the losses the meter records.
• Car finance calculatorPCP and hire purchase side by side, with the cost of credit.
• Cost per milePence a mile by fuel and economy, against the HMRC mileage rate.
• Insurance groupsWhat groups 1 to 50 measure, and the four things they do not.
• Write-off categoriesWhat Cat A, B, S and N mean for road use and buying.
• Category NNon structural damage, road use, checks and insurance.
• Category SStructural damage, DVLA notification and returning to the road.
• Categories A and BVehicles that cannot return to the road and what must be destroyed.
• Old categories C and DHow the former repair cost categories map to the current system.
• Buying a written-off carHistory checks, repair evidence, insurance and resale questions.
• Repair costsTypical UK garage prices for the jobs a used car actually needs.

Driving licence

• Reading your licenceWhat every code and category on the photocard means.
• Licence codesEvery DVLA information code, from 01 to 125.
• Licence categoriesWhat each entitlement lets you drive, and from what age.

MOT

• MOT costs and rulesThe maximum fee, retest rules and when the test falls due.
• MOT test centresEvery authorised test station by town and postcode district.
• MOT exemptionCheck the rolling historic vehicle rule and substantial changes.

Reference

• GuidesLonger answers to the questions the calculators cannot fit.
• Makes and modelsSpecification, years sold and what a representative example costs to tax.
• Driving in a placeLocal charges, chargers and fleet figures for 45 UK towns and cities.
• The dataFuel prices, tax tables and the zone matrix, with every source named.
• All toolsEvery calculator and reference table on the site, in one list.

Tolls

• UK road tollsFind a crossing and compare car charges, payment deadlines and penalties.
• Dartford CrossingDart Charge prices, payment window, discounts and penalties.
• Blackwall and Silvertown tunnelsThe shared tunnel charge, Auto Pay prices and exemptions.
• M6 TollVehicle classes, weekday and weekend prices, and ways to pay.
• Tyne TunnelCurrent tolls, account rates, payment deadline and UTCN rules.
• Mersey GatewayCrossing charges, registration discounts and late-payment rules.
• London Congestion ChargeDaily prices, discounts, exemptions and payment deadlines.

What every page on this site does

• Puts the answer in the first screen, as a figure, a verdict or a table, rather than after four paragraphs of preamble.
• Keeps every statutory figure beside the publication it came from, with the date it was read.
• Says when something is not published instead of estimating around the gap.
• Shows the assumptions a calculator made, so you can see which one does not describe you.

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Common questions

Do any of these need my registration number?

No. Not one of them asks for a registration, and the plate decoder reads a mark in your browser without sending it anywhere. Every answer on this site is computed from figures you can see rather than looked up against a record about you.

Where do the figures come from?

GOV.UK, HMRC, DVLA, DVSA, the Sentencing Council, legislation.gov.uk, EUR-Lex, DESNZ and Ofgem, each named on the page that uses it with the date it was read. Where nothing is published, the page says so rather than estimating.

How often are the rates updated?

Vehicle excise duty moves on 1 April, company car percentages on 6 April, fuel prices weekly and the energy price cap quarterly. Each page carries a checked on date, and a page with an old date has not been re-read rather than being wrong.