Fleet calendar // Tax
When does VAT on public EV charging change?
It is on 1 November 2026, 2 days from today (expected).
2 days to go
What changes
The government is putting into law that electricity from publicly accessible chargepoints is standard rated for VAT, with effect from 1 November 2026.
Who it affects
Company car drivers and van fleets that charge on the public network, and fleet managers setting public charging reimbursement.
Source
HM Treasury: Budget 2026, overview of tax legislation and rates, 28 October 2026. Expected: officially stated, but not yet in force or subject to a decision still to come.
THRIVE data: fleet charging costs
In THRIVE's reporting
- Public EV charging cost review calls for tariff porting, price support and network charge reform
- Budget 2026: £100m to cut charging costs at residential public EV charge points
- Fewer than one in three motorway EV charging bays meet accessibility standards, Motability Operations finds
- GRIDSERVE cuts public EV charging prices by 20% for one day to highlight VAT gap
- Russell Group demonstrates megawatt charging on MAN eTGX in Coatbridge
Coming up next
- 1 November 2026: THRIVE Fleet Sentiment Index for the month
- 3 November 2026: Official UK fuel prices for the week
- 9 November 2026: SMMT used car sales, third quarter 2026
- 25 November 2026: DfT electric vehicle charging infrastructure statistics
- 25 November 2026: Ofgem announces the energy price cap for January to March 2027