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Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

Crossheading Cars: appropriate percentage: first registered on or after 1st January 1998

  • Section 135 Car with a CO2 emissions figure: pre-October 1999 registration
  • Section 136 Car with a CO2 emissions figure: registration from 1st October 1999 to IP completion day
  • Section 136A Car with a CO2 emissions figure: registration on or after IP completion day
  • Section 137 Car with a CO2 emissions figure: bi-fuel cars : registration from 1st January 2000 to IP completion day
  • Section 137A Car with a CO2 emissions figure: bi-fuel cars registered on or after IP completion day
  • Section 138 Car with a CO2 emissions figure: automatic car for a disabled employee
  • Section 138A Certain cars with a CO2 emissions figure and an electric range figure
  • Section 139 Cars with a CO2 emissions figure: the appropriate percentage
  • Section 140 Car without a CO2 emissions figure: the appropriate percentage
  • Section 141 Diesel cars: the appropriate percentage
  1. Cars: appropriate percentage: first registered on or after 1st January 1998
  2. Cars with a CO2 emissions figure: the appropriate percentage

Section 139 | Cars with a CO2 emissions figure: the appropriate percentage F1

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)The appropriate percentage for a year for a car with a CO2 emissions figure of less than 75 is determined in accordance with the following table.F1F2F3

Table
CarAppropriate percentage
Car with CO2 emissions figure of 04%
Car with CO2 emissions figure of 1–50As follows
Car with electric range figure of 130 or more4%
Car with electric range figure of 70–1297%
Car with electric range figure of 40–6910%
Car with electric range figure of 30–3914%
Car with electric range figure of less than 3016%
Car with CO2 emissions figure of 51–5417%
Car with CO2 emissions figure of 55–5918%
Car with CO2 emissions figure of 60–6419%
Car with CO2 emissions figure of 65–6920%
Car with CO2 emissions figure of 70–7421%

(2)For the purposes of subsection (1) and the table—F1F2F4

(a)if a CO2 emissions figure is not a whole number, round it down to the nearest whole number, andF1F2F4

(b)if an electric range figure is not a whole number, round it up to the nearest whole number.F1F2F4

(3)The appropriate percentage for a year for a car with a CO2 emissions figure of 75 or more is whichever is the lesser of—F1F2

(a)21% plus one percentage point for each 5 grams per kilometre driven by which the CO2 emissions figure exceeds 75, andF1F2F5

(b)37%.F1F2

(4)For the purposes of subsection (3), if a CO2 emissions figure is not a multiple of 5, round it down to the nearest multiple of 5.F1F2

(5)In this section, an “electric range figure” is the number of miles which is the equivalent of the number of kilometres specified in an EC certificate of conformity, an EC type-approval certificate or a UK approval certificate on the basis of which a car is registered, as being the maximum distance for which the car can be driven in electric mode without recharging the battery.F1F2

(5A)For the purpose of determining the electric range figure for a car first registered before 6 April 2020, ignore any WLTP (worldwide harmonised light vehicle test procedures) values specified in an EC certificate of conformity, an EC type-approval certificate or a UK approval certificate.F1F6

(5B)For the purpose of determining the electric range figure for a car first registered on or after 6 April 2020, ignore any values specified in an EC certificate of conformity, an EC type-approval certificate or a UK approval certificate that are not WLTP (worldwide harmonised light vehicle test procedures) values.F1F6

(7)This section is subject to—F1

(a)section 141 (diesel cars), andF1

(b)any regulations made by the Treasury under section 170(4) (power to reduce the appropriate percentage).F1

Notes

  1. F1

    S. 139 substituted (for tax year 2012-13 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2010 (c. 13), s. 59(2)(5)

  2. F2

    S. 139(1)-(5) substituted for s. 139(1)-(6) (for tax year 2020-21 and subsequent tax years) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), s. 2(2)(6)

  3. F3

    S. 139(1) Table substituted (for the tax year 2026-27) by Finance Act 2023 (c. 1), s. 11(5)(6)

  4. F4

    S. 139(2) substituted for the tax year 2020-21 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2020 (c. 14), s. 8(4)(a)(5)

  5. F5

    Word in s. 139(3)(a) substituted (for the tax year 2025-26 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2023 (c. 1), s. 11(3)(4)

  6. F6

    S. 139(5A)(5B) inserted (for the tax year 2020-21 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2020 (c. 14), s. 8(4)(b)(5)

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