Owners of these vehicles face a staggering £1,732 tax rise (Image: Getty)
Certain drivers are set to pay an extra £1,732 on due to major updates to rates this year.
If current sales patterns continue, £15.5 million in of the new tax year.
It comes after dramatic from April 2025 with prices set to soar.
The analysis from found that van owners will face the highest increases followed closely by models.
New diesel buyers could see a sharp average increase of £1,807 per vehicle in the first half of the new tax year.
Van owners will be hit with new VED charges (Image: Getty)
Analysis revealed new diesel van owners will spend an extra £14.2 million in tax during this period.
An extra £1.2 million will come from new petrol van purchases and will equate to a yearly bill of £1,354 more per petrol van.
Motorists with more efficient, cleaner vans will still face rises from the Spring but fees will be noticeably lower.
Those behind the wheel of hybrid vans will only pay an extra £252 towards their annual tax charges.
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This is a whopping £1,500 less than diesel van drivers in a massive contrast between cleaner and combustion models set to materialise.
Tom Banks, motoring expert at stressed road users could dodge the staggering price rises by switching their fuel type ahead of the new fees coming on stream.
He said: “The increased VED rates will result in a big hit if you buy a brand-new van later this year, but there are things you can do to absorb the blow.
“The tax rates are based on CO2 emissions, so if you’re able to, this is a good time to switch to a van using cleaner fuels in the cheaper tax bands.”
The fresh analysis was put together by experts at Go Compare van insurance with the team using data from the Department for Transport.
Specialists reviewed privately owned van registrations in the first half of the 2024 tax year before applying the new VED rates to estimate how much more road users could pay.