MAG: Make ALL Motorcycles VED-Exempt: Vehicle Excise Duty (VED)—road tax, whatever you choose to call it—is unfair and unjust for motorcyclists. MAG is campaigning to exempt all motorcycles from it, and right now we have a real opportunity to advance that goal—but we need your help urgently!
For years, MAG has argued that a weight-based taxation system is the fairest approach for everyone: heavier vehicles like HGVs pay more because they cause far greater road damage. This logic should apply across all vehicles, not just some.
In the government's new consultation on Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED)—a 3p-per-mile charge for electric cars starting April 2028—electric motorcycles have been explicitly exempted. They have accepted the logic and we believe this should be applied to conventional vehicles. MAG's response to the consultation builds on this: since the government has accepted that motorcycles cause negligible road damage, the same weight-based fairness principle must now extend to all motorcycles, including conventional petrol ones. Exempting them aligns with true proportionality, encourages greener modal shifts, reduces congestion, and makes administrative sense given motorcycles represent under 1% of vehicle miles.
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