Rumours suggest tomorrow’s budget will see fuel prices increase by 2p per litre – although the price raise is expected to be delayed until later in the year.
Chancellor Alistair Darling is also believed to be considering a £1,000 tax charge on the most polluting cars that drivers will have to pay in the first year of ownership.
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Boring! ~ He taxes, we kick up fuss……and then we pay out. And until we can’t pay / won’t pay (not really an option) he will continue to tax, we will kick up more fuss and keep on paying. Ho Hum. Such is life and there’s not a lot we can do about it. I just hope the oil actually runs out real soon, then things might actually change for the better for this small ovecrowded, attitude-behind-the-wheel, little country of ours. Keep smilin’
On one side the government is fighting hard to restrict the pay of public sector workers, argueing that it’s required to halt inflation …….
Whilst on the other hand announcing that fuel is going up AGAIN! How many times has it been this year? I’ve lost count. Fuel costs filter down into every aspect of life and every price out there so how can they get away with this ridiculous contridiction? Oh but of course it’s all in the name of a ‘green and happy future’
I don’t agree with these CO2 based taxes but why are they only for the first year on the high polluters?
If you’re forking out 50k plus for a car then you’re not going to give a monkeys that it’ll cost a grand to tax for the first year before falling to a couple of hundred.
Yet again it the easy target motorist who has to pay up the most. If i could do my commute on public transport then i would. It costs me 6 time more than it does to drive (360 mile round trip) But look at the bigger picture, fuel & tax goes up, then will have to be food ect to cover the delivery costs, its just a vicious circle. We should look at what the Gvmt pay out to other countries & hand out to the scrounger of this counrty before fleecing Joe public again!
All the time the Gvmt vote for their own pay raise & also claim unbelevable amount in expences, whist being driven around in the biggest poluting cars in the country. Its one rule for them, everyone else can suffer!!!
This country has been a joke for a very long time. For me, high taxes means very little and DOES not deter me. Yes I have a 4×4, yes I have numerous sports cars and yes I care less about the latest jargon…’Climate change’; ‘Global warming’ etc.
This country can raise taxes all it likes, I just bill my clients for more to cover my cost and more just for the hell of it. Works a treat…!
I love the chancellor – he has given me the best excuse to raise my prices without my clients objecting…fab!
Guess who picks up the extra tab? YEP, YOU MR CUSTOMER. Well done chancellor…good economic policy…I love it!
JOKE!!!!!!!! THE COUNTRY IS A MESS……
THEY ALWAYS CHOOSE MOTORISTS……
NONE OF THEM DRIVE AROUND IN THE GREENER CAR….. SO WHY SHOULD WE……
THEY SHOULD HAVE A LOOK AT WHATS REALLY HITTING THERE BUDGET…..
ALSO THERE HAS BEEN NO REAL ROAD WORKS AROUND WHERE I LIVE SO WHATS MY TAX PAYING FOR!!!!! HIS AND HIS FRIENDS POINTLESS WAGE AND THE BULLET PROOF RANGE ROVER HE TOBBIES ABOUT IN…..
Our Country contributes less than 2% of the world’s total pollution (that’s not just cars that is everything including industry) …..To think that we can make a huge impact on the pollution output by banning large cars such as 4×4′s is farcical…and why is it that at every turn it is the poor brow beaten British public that pick up the price tag. I thought we were supposed to be a free democratic country, however I find myself been told that I must pay tax out of my wages, tax on the fuel I need that powers my car that takes me to work, then I must pay more tax to keep my car on the road as well as all of the other taxes i pay, TAX TAX TAX TAX…I’m sick of it…where does all this money go? We must be the richest country in the world! Climate change has gone on since the earth was formed, we can’t change that fact. The earth is eons old and we have lived on the face of it for a minute fraction of its existence, we have only had industry / technology in the past 100 or so years, to think that we have changed the earths climate via our actions in this blink of an eye timescale of the earths life cycle is pure laughable!! I am all for keeping the world clean, I dont litter, i try to recycle what i can, but please…climate change, global warming i put it up there with fairies and the easter bunny ….pure fiction.
Sounds like ‘Climate Change’ is giving the Government the perfect excuse to fleece motorists.
As for the road tax, it needs to be modified to account for how many miles the vehicles is driven instead of charging a fixed amount, otherwise the charge makes no sense – which I’m sure our greedy Government realise.
A captive audience, the motorist is there to get fleeced at all aspects for making a choice in transportation. If the state really had any commitment to improving transport, rail, buses and taxis or car rental for sharing would be redesigned, affordable, available decent transport. Individual ownership is an uneconomic use of a car.
As for the dread 4×4 in an urban environment on the school run or blocking the supermarket/ hairdressers etc, car park. Therapy for the drivers: if you are not a 6ft+ 15 stone+ bloke or a farmer you don’t need one. Middle class urban couples moaning about being unable to open the doors on the SUV because the parking space is too small need help with reality. Yes that is right the car IS too big, (like the ego of the purchaser.) But aren’t they game on for Mr Darling, he needs their money, because clearly they do not.
Booze! He will add a bit more tax all in the name of cleaning up the streets.