why not put the tax on petrol and scrap the road tax as a separate entity entirely. that why when my car sits in the garage most of the year and does about 100 miles im not paying the same as someone doing 20000 miles a year.
so many fairer ways of doing it, but as usual the making the most money way usually wins and its dressed up as saving the planet by chopping down less trees for tax discs and our roads will be safer as the people who dont give a crap will be scared to drive cars with no tax. what bollocks!
Well, it's already enforced... The ACTUAL cost of petrol is less than 10p, then about 50% of the current petrol cost is the TAX + you pay 20% VAT on top of that TAX - this is TAX on TAX and the rest is the profits of the oil company and the local supermarket. Increasing the cost of petrol would result to a less tax payments as people will try to save on petrol/buy more economical cars, use public transport etc...
For example cost of petrol in Russia is less than 50p per Litre and that's expensive compared to lets say Iraq where 1 tonne of crude oil can be purchased for about 4 US Dollars...
Oh and the actual cost of the LPG is even lower - it's about 3p per litre...
The fair way I see is to tax the vehicle acording to it's CURRENT value - and provide tax free for those vehicles under £5K, tax a little bit between the car value of 5k-10k and tax very heavy on the car over £50K - that is what I See a FAIR way to tax cars, however this will never happen as all the politicians drive over £50K cars...
