Jaguar F-Pace car tax runs to £640 a year for most models during years two through six of the vehicle’s life, made up of a £200 standard Vehicle Excise Duty rate plus a £440 expensive car supplement.1GOV.UK. V149 – Rates of Vehicle Tax – April 2026 From year seven onward the bill drops to £200. Because Jaguar has confirmed F-Pace production ends in 2025, most people looking at this figure are buying used, and the rules work a little differently second-hand than they do at the showroom.
What You Pay on a Used F-Pace
VED does not transfer with the car. When you buy a used F-Pace, you have to tax it in your own name before driving it on public roads, and any tax the previous owner had left is refunded to them once the DVLA processes the change of keeper.2GOV.UK. Tax Your Vehicle
Used buyers skip the first-year CO2-based rate and go straight to the £200 standard rate. The catch is the expensive car supplement. It applies to any car with an original list price above £40,000 at first registration, and it uses the manufacturer’s price on the day the car was new, including factory-fitted options and VAT. What you actually paid for the car is irrelevant. Buy a five-year-old F-Pace for £25,000 and you will still owe the supplement if it originally listed at £52,000.
The supplement runs for five years, starting from the second year of vehicle tax, so it applies during years two through six of the car’s life.3GOV.UK. Vehicle Tax for Electric, Zero and Low Emission Vehicles Nearly every F-Pace trim left the factory above the £40,000 threshold, so expect the full £640 until the car passes its sixth birthday. Check the date of first registration on the V5C logbook, count forward six years, and you know exactly when your bill falls to £200.
Get sight of the V5C before you commit. It carries the official CO2 figure and fuel type the DVLA uses to assign the tax band.4Vehicle Certification Agency. General Points A private seller who cannot produce it is a problem worth investigating before you hand over any money.
First-Year Rate on a New F-Pace
A brand-new F-Pace pays a one-off first-year rate set entirely by its CO2 emissions in grams per kilometre. Dealers usually roll it into the on-the-road price, which is why it is sometimes called showroom tax. The figure varies sharply across the range because F-Pace engines cover a wide emissions spread, from the P400e plug-in hybrid in the 37–41 g/km bracket up to the SVR at 274 g/km.5Jaguar. F-PACE WLTP Technical Specification At the top of the scale the first-year charge runs into several thousand pounds. Bands are set annually by the Treasury and published on GOV.UK, so match your model’s V5C emissions figure against the current table before you budget.
One recent change matters for hybrid buyers. From April 2025, the £10 annual discount that used to apply to alternatively fuelled vehicles, including hybrids, was removed.6GOV.UK. Introduction of Vehicle Excise Duty for Zero Emission Cars, Vans and Motorcycles From 2025 The P400e plug-in hybrid and the mild-hybrid diesels and petrols now pay the same standard rate as pure petrol and diesel variants.
How to Pay
You tax the car through the GOV.UK website or at a Post Office. The online service needs one of three reference numbers: the 16-digit code from a V11 reminder letter, the 11-digit reference from your V5C, or the 12-digit reference from the new keeper slip if you have just bought the car and the V5C is not yet in your name.2GOV.UK. Tax Your Vehicle7GOV.UK. Tax Your Vehicle Without a Vehicle Tax Reminder
Pay in one go or spread it by Direct Debit. Monthly and six-monthly Direct Debits carry a 5% surcharge.8DVLA Digital. Set Up a Direct Debit to Tax Your Vehicle Today On the £640 supplement-year total, that turns £640 into £672 annually.1GOV.UK. V149 – Rates of Vehicle Tax – April 2026 A single annual Direct Debit payment avoids the surcharge.
SORN If the Car Is Off the Road
If you are not keeping the F-Pace on public roads, you do not have to pay VED, but you do have to declare a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN). A SORN is required whenever the vehicle is untaxed or uninsured, even for a short gap between policies.9GOV.UK. When You Need to Make a SORN – Overview You can declare one online, by phone, or by post, and it stays in force until you either tax the car again or sell it.
A SORN’d vehicle cannot be driven on public roads for any purpose other than travelling directly to or from a pre-booked MOT appointment. Breaking that rule risks a court fine of up to £2,500.9GOV.UK. When You Need to Make a SORN – Overview
What Happens If You Don’t Tax It
If your F-Pace is neither taxed nor SORN’d, the DVLA issues an automatic £80 fine.9GOV.UK. When You Need to Make a SORN – Overview That is the soft end.
If the DVLA catches an untaxed car on a public road, you first get an out-of-court settlement letter for £30 plus one and a half times the outstanding tax. Ignore that and the case goes to magistrates’ court, where the maximum penalty is £1,000 or five times the unpaid tax, whichever is greater. The DVLA can also clamp the car (£100 to release within 24 hours) or impound it (£200 plus £21 a day in storage), and unclaimed vehicles can be auctioned, broken for parts, or crushed after 7 to 14 days.10GOV.UK. DVLA Enforcement of Vehicle Tax, Registration and Insurance Offences For a car worth what an F-Pace is, that is a lot to lose over a missed reminder.