Your vehicle's disabled tax class exempts it from ULEZ

Vehicles registered with DVLA in the 'disabled' or 'disabled passenger vehicle' tax class do not have to pay the ULEZ charge, and this exemption runs until 24 October 2027. If your vehicle falls into one of those tax classes, any ULEZ penalty charge notice issued to you is an administrative mistake.

Legal basis

Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 Schedule 2 paragraph 19 — a vehicle is an exempt vehicle "when it is being used, or kept for use, by or for the purposes of a disabled person who satisfies sub-paragraph (2)", which is what places it in the DVLA disabled tax class; the Greater London LEZ/ULEZ Charging Order and the TfL exemption scheme, which grant the ULEZ exemption to vehicles in that class. As with all Schedule 2 classes, the Act exempts the vehicle from vehicle excise duty; the exemption from the charge itself comes from the Charging Order.

How to identify this in your case

Vehicle V5C shows tax class 'disabled' or 'disabled passenger vehicle'.

Sample appeal wording

Before you send this

Deadline. A late submission can be turned down without your argument being read. Check your notice for the deadline and how it is counted.
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Use the official route. Use the method, recipient and form your notice specifies, with any reference, evidence and signature it asks for. Sent elsewhere, it may not count.
Only say what is true. Do not copy any statement of fact unless it is true for you, and check the legal point still applies. Delete what does not fit. It may be treated as your statement.
Careful what you volunteer. Avoid unnecessary admissions — naming the driver or accepting responsibility can remove arguments. But answer anything you are legally required to answer, and do include the evidence your ground needs.
Keep the record. Keep what you sent, the attachments, any receipt, and the reply. Note the next deadline.

Sample wording to adapt and send yourself — it may not fit your notice or the stage you are at. Replace the bracketed prompts with your own details; leave any case citation as it is.

To: TfL ULEZ Team Re: ULEZ PCN [PCN_NUMBER] My vehicle is registered with DVLA in the [disabled / disabled passenger vehicle] tax class (V5C enclosed). Under the TfL ULEZ Exemption Scheme, such vehicles are exempt until 24 October 2027. The PCN is in error. Please cancel. Yours faithfully, [Keeper Name]

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Your vehicle's disabled tax class exempts it from ULEZ

Legal basis

How to identify this in your case

Sample appeal wording

Beat It writes this argument automatically

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