As of 6 April this year, anyone who owns or leases a double cab pick-up truck – i.e. a truck that can carry the driver plus four passengers – will be paying a lot more tax. This is because HMRC re-classified a double cab pick-up truck as a car, rather than a commercial vehicle. Commercial vehicles enjoy certain advantages, like a flat, lower rate of benefit in kind (BIK) deductions for employees.

SUVs have been growing, in size and in number, for two decades now. Policy action to date has been limited, hence the need for the SUV Alliance and our manifesto for safer, fairer streets.