On 07/01/2018 05:26, Simon Jester wrote:
On Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 11:12:56 PM UTC, Tony Dragon wrote:
On 06/01/2018 21:06, Simon Jester wrote:
On Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 8:34:55 PM UTC, Tony Dragon wrote:
On 06/01/2018 18:43, Simon Jester wrote:

http://roads.highways.gov.uk/project...mart-motorway/

£274 million to upgrade 3 of the 45 junction on the M6 alone.
£4 Billion to upgrade the whole M6.

Motoring taxes generate £6 billion pa

Would you give a breakdown of motoring taxes?

VED is the only specific motoring tax, it raises £6billion pa of which £10billion is spent on motorway maintenance, even Autoholics Anonymous agree with that.


So the VAT on fuel, and tax on new cars, tax on vehicle parts/service.
tolls etc does not exist.

Paid by all road users but only motorists can use motorways.

Pedestrians aren't allowed on motorways whether they have driving
licences or not.

Apart from mopeds, invalid carriages, certain milk floats and maybe one
or two other equally esoteric specialist vehicles, any vehicle which
uses taxed motor spirit (petrol or diesel) is allowed onto a motorway.

At a conservative estimate, tax paid annually on fuel for the average
private car will be a minimum of about ten times more than the rate of
Road Tax for that vehicle. In the case of my own car, with its £20 a
year Road Tax, the fuel tax bill over 12,000 miles is more than sixty
times greater, at something like £1250+ a year. And that's in addition
to the Road Tax, plus Insurance Premium Tax, plus VAT on servicing,
repairs and consumables.

PS: I have always thought it daft - and probably immoral - to charge VAT
on essential safety maintenance and spares on any vehicle.