The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “Abolish road tax on Motorcycles.”.

Government responded:

The average motorcycle owner pays £54 VED per year whilst the average car owner pays £166. VED rates have been limited to inflation only increases since 2010.

Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) is a tax on vehicle ownership irrespective of miles driven.

The rates of VED for lower emissions cars are part of a multi-pronged strategy to help realise long-term fuel-efficiency improvements through funding technological innovation, regulating manufacturing improvements and incentivising consumer take-up. This helps the Government to fulfil its legal obligation to reduce national CO2 emissions.

Unlike for cars, it has only been mandatory for CO2 emissions data to be included as part of the type approval process for motorcycles since 1 January 2016. Therefore, it has not been possible to base motorcycle VED rates on CO2 emissions. The current engine capacity based rates offer the most practical and easy-to-understand way to reflect the respective emissions of motorcycles.

Currently, the average motorcycle owner pays £54 per year – a lot less than the top VED rate of £81 per year – and the average car owner pays £166 per year. In addition, under this Government, VED rate increases for motorcycles have been limited to inflation only, meaning that all motorcyclists’ VED liability remains unchanged in real terms since 2010.

HM Treasury

Click this link to view the response online:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/118875?reveal_response=yes

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The Petitions team
UK Government and Parliament

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What might work is if somebody could send it to all members maybe that way might get a better response.                                                                                                                                                                             

Trouble is we are all our own worst enemy. We moan about stuff but can't be bothered to do anything but just roll over and pay up. So the Government get away with it all the time                                                                                                                                                                              

I.ve just been on FB and posted on bike club sites maybe that will help it along.

                                                                                                                                                                             

Considering the way they have dealt with the doctors we are lucky they even let us ride on "their" roads.