road tax

British  

noun

1. a tax paid, usually annually, on motor vehicles in use on the roads

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Example Sentences

Some of the new taxes at least are comprehensible: Ms. Reeves will roll out a per-mile road tax on electric vehicles, which goes part of the way toward equalizing the tax burden between EV drivers and motorists who pay fuel taxes on gasoline or diesel.

From The Wall Street Journal

In June, the ONS said the UK's inflation rate for April was too high after it discovered it had been given incorrect road tax data by the Department for Transport.

From BBC

It found that the number of vehicles people were paying road tax on in the first year of registration was too high in the data that was given.

From BBC

The UK's statistics agency has said the headline inflation rate for April was too high after it discovered it had been given incorrect road tax data by the Department for Transport.

From BBC

"Consumers have not only been grappling with multiple April cost increases in the form of utilities, council tax, stamp duty, and road tax, but they are also hearing dire warnings of renewed high inflation on the back of the Trump tariffs," said Neil Bellamy, consumer insights director at GfK.

From BBC