Road Tax added to cost of fuel.

flip_flop | 11:47 Tue 27th Sep 2011 | Motoring

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Is there an argument to put the road tax onto the cost of fuel?

The more you drive the more you're taxed.

I only do about 2000 miles a year in my car and an absolute maximum of 2000 on my bikes - on one of them last year I did a grand total of 156 miles, yet had to tax it for a year because I don't know when I'm going to want to use it!

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hc4361

It would punish those who currently don't pay road tax, but would get money out of those foreign vehicles that don't pay road tax.

redcrx

ive always thought that road tax added to fuel would be the most sensible option, no-one could avoid contributing that way.

Again, we have a bike here that only did a couple of hundred mile last year. Plus that way the vehicles that are on the roads most (and therefore doing most damage and causing the need for wider roads etc etc) would be paying the majority of money towards repairs

charlieuniform3

No - i live out in the country with no public transport links so need to drive to work - at least at the moment I can decide to buy 6 months or a year.

How many bikes can you ride at once?

buttons77

I hope not - I changed my car 12 months ago and my road tax went down from £180 to £20 - I liked that!

chas2008

it has been talked about before but never came to anything, but my car tax is only £30.00 per year,

craft1948

I assume this would only apply to petrol not diesel else haulage prices would go through the roof...............

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Mattk

It has always struck me that the more economical cars become the less we need to refuel and the less we need to refuel the higher the price of petrol becomes. Everyone mentions oil prices but surely this plays as big a part if not more?

Ellipsis

There are two taxes. Road tax is a tax on having a car, not a tax on driving it. Fuel is already taxed at 58p per litre and, for most people, will exceed their road tax. For example, my road tax is £460 pa and I pay about £1500 pa on fuel tax ...

joko

perhaps a split ? lower the disc price an add the rest to fuel?

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BrainsTracy

The logic of putting it on fueld is compelling If it where down to simple logic then putting it on fuel is obvious. Those who drive a lot already pay a lot of duty so essentially motorists pay proportionately anyway. The car tax disc system is not merely a revenue creating device it is also a goverenment policy device, eg a new Range rover costs £950 a year, that hurts all at once but the drivers of such vehicles would probably pay that in extra duty were say 10p addes to a litre. You can't please everyong but if we are being selfish for a minute, I'd prefer it on Fuel as I don't do huge mileage and have what eco warriors would call a gas guzzler!

rov1100

Its only by having a road tax that the government knows what vehicles are on the road and who owns them. Number plate recognition would be irrelevent and people could escape justice with speeding and motoring offences. Criminals would have a field day.

As was pointed out fleet vehicles and buses would have to incrtease their charges.

Andyvon

I used to own a chauffeur and courier company with a maximum of 17 vehicles. I often drove over 100,000 miles a year and many of my drivers did much the same. Most of my vehicles were on the road all day, all year and most had completed several hundred thousand miles. Yet I only had to pay standard road tax every year- the same amount as my neighbour who drove about 2000 miles a year! That wasn't right. I was aware of that then and I still feel the same now.

Yes. Put the tax on fuel. That way drivers pay more tax the more they use the road. It's the only fair way. (I will point out that companies like ours don't actually pay any road tax. Accountants always write those costs off to the taxman anyway).