Stop increases in road tax for motorhomes.

Perhaps there is not! However this change in VED impacts on motorhomers to a far greater extent than it does when buying a tow car. If I were to return to towing and needed to buy a new tow car I would have a massive choice of vehicles between £20000 to use under the £40000 threshold for the new "extra" tax imposed on motorhomes since 1st September. If I go the other way and give up caravanning to change to a motorhome the choice I have if I wanted, even a small coachbuilt motorhome under that £40000 threshold is almost non-existent. So in my view motorhomers have been targeted as a means of getting an easy increase in VED revenues. It would be difficult to argue against taxing all vehicles on emissions but for most people buying a new motorhome they have the double whammy of the extra VED because of linking it to emission plus the extra luxury car tax because by their very nature motorhomes are going to be expensive even if they are not particularly luxurious! The motorhome industry in the UK is relatively small compared to Europe and only time will tell whether these changes have any long term negative impact.

David 

The first year tax when a vehicle is first registered is £2135 for motorhomes with emissions higher than 255g/km which I am guessing would be almost all motorhomes (the 2.2 litre Peugeot diesel for example is 287 g/km). So, I am presuming that this will be included in the “on the road” price quoted by dealers. They would also have to pay the higher tax for a vehicle selling at over £40k if applicable. The buyer would then pay the higher tax for a further 4 years. Something I will be asking at the NEC when I look at new vehicles.

This is going to increase the list price by around £2500 which will have an interesting affect on the secondhand market.

Just a correction to the above, apparently the luxury tax only starts the second year so is years 2 - 6. The £2135 is correct for the initial purchase.