DVLA plans to el tax 'honeymoon
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by Karen Miles
• The Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency is about to give notice to thousands of operators of engineering vehicles that their tax honeymoon is coming to an end.
As part of a clamp-down on vehicle excise duty avoidance, 10,000 letters are about to be despatched saying the Vehicle Inspectorate will rule whether a vehicle should remain in the .£150-a-year restricted class classification.
The letters will be sent out from September with VED payment reminders.
The move, which could cost operators an extra £14m a year, will require thousands of extra vehicles to be submitted for annual testing.
The DVLA says there has been a rising number of vehicles entering the classification, prompting road safety concerns because restricted vehicles art from annual tests an regulations.
It believes that mai 8,000-9,000 vehicles classified are "inappn free from testing, pla higher VED groups.
Plant hire compan engineering firms am Telecom will be harde vehicles such as stree tower wagons and so pressure water jet vet taken out of the group.
The plan is bound t controversy as operatt with the VI over whet vehicles should remai restricted classification.
Transport lawyer Lawton has already ac DVLA of "terrorising pi taxing their vehicles thing they're not—the: neering vehicles, no vehicles".