Bike tax on the up: Machines over 600cc cross the £100 threshold

Updated: 07 March 2022

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Motorcycle tax rates are set to increase from April 1 2022, with bikes over 600cc crossing the £100 threshold.

Motorcycles in this category will now cost £101 a year as a one-off payment – an increase of £5 over 2021 charges. If you wish to split this over 12 monthly payments, you’ll end up spending £106.05 overall.

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But it’s not just big bikes on the increase, with two and three wheelers seeing price rises across the board.

Anything up to 150cc has gone up £1 to an annual cost of £22, with 151-400cc machines now taxed at £47 – representing a rise of £2. Elsewhere, 401-600cc bikes are up by £4 to £73 a year.

Also sharing the £101 charge are tricycles over 150cc, with those below that capacity costing £22 a year. The £55 first registration fee remains unchanged.

By Dan Sutherland

News Editor - I joined the MCN team straight from studying at the University of Sheffield, starting out as Acting Consumer Editor, before becoming the Senior Online Reporter, Senior Writer and more recently the News Editor. Although my first love will always be performance bikes and racing, I have a passion for all things two-wheeled. I did my Compulsory Basic Training (CBT) on my 16th birthday and passed my full test around a year later. I now cover around 20,000 road miles a year on motorcycles of all genres and in all weathers. I have also experienced elements of advanced rider training, tackled countless UK and international short circuits and achieved an ACU race licence to begin a fledgling competition career.

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