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TWR | 18:53 Thu 28th Jan 2016 | Motoring
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Is the road fund Licence fair? are the drivers that drive bigger cars / vans / 4x4s getting ripped off, Excluding HGVs as they do pay their dues due to the amount of Axels they have.
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It's all changing next year - back to a more sensible flat rate system - £140 for all cars except those costing over £40,000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/advice/how-will-the-new-car-tax-prices-affect-me/

Not retrospective though - only for cars purchased after April 2017.


And you're wrong about HGVs - they only pay a tiny fraction of what they should - but I won't bother you with my analysis of that again, since I know we differ quite a bit.

I have thought for years that road tax should be replaced by a tax on fuel.
That way you could not avoid it and those who drove bigger/faster cars or more mileage would pay accordingly. Some one who just used a car occasionally or in an emergency would pay very little, someone who drove 100s of miles a week would may more. Complicated now by electric cars though.
It's as fair as it can be.
I agree with Eddie. The tax should be on fuel - then those who do the most mileage (therefore the most damage to the roads, environment etc) pay more
I absolutely agree Eddie/Lynda.

The sums are easy - the total take from VED is £5.63bn, the take from fuel duty is £26.8bn - so if you add about 20% on to fuel duty you could abolish VED - that would put up pump prices by about 14p per litre from extra fuel duty and VAT.

It would be a good time to do it too - with prices currently at a historic low.

i agree with eddie too but if this did happen i would really be paying road tax for my chain saws, lawn mowers, strimmers and any other fuel powered machines and i only use about 6 gallons a year, what will happen to those who do this sort of work as a business?
the tax is on fuel!!!!
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Although I said Excluding HGVs Eddie, they average 6>>8>>10 to a gallon, Food goes up, fuel goes up, household goods goes up, everything goes up.
what I mean is there is a load of tax on it already and the government hardly ever abolish an income stream. the problem with putting it on fuel is that it would in effect increase the tax on everything that is transported in a truck.
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Exactly.
For me it's unfair as I pay £300 road tax yet the car hardly leaves the drive.
May I introduce you to the concept of "Zero Sum" - the total tax take does not go up - it is merely raised more equitably from the correct suspects - rather than a blanket tax on everyone.

If some people pay more because the revised tax is biting, then other people must (self evidently) be better off as they are paying less.

[ this does assume that Government and Business play fair - which, as TTT says, is 'unlikely' ]
paul1763 People who use fuel for their business will do just as they do now, claim it as an expense against income tax.
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A lot have Mobile Homes that's taxed for 6months an year but hardly used! is that fair, also as Sher has stated.
They should be paying at least treble - for all the bloody aggravation they cause the rest of us when the slow moving, no mirrors, never pull over, mobile chicane units are used, TWR
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lol lol at least we can agree to not agree Sunny but I like that.
Put extra tax on fuel.The Foreign HGV drivers who churn up our roads will have to pay as do our HGV drivers who pay tolls on the auto routes/bhans/stradas in the rest of Europe.
^^ I assume you mean Motor Homes not mobile homes TWR,no tax on static caravans yet.
If you have a motor home that you only use a week or two a year, surely the way is to SORN it most of the time then just unSORN and tax it when you need it. Once the trip is over you reclaim the remaining full months tax and SORN it again , that way you only pay 1 or 2 months tax a year.

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