On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:45:23 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:
> The bitch about road tax for me is that I work from home so don't
> drive much and have four cars, most of which rarely move,
Er why do you have four cars if, by your own admission, you don't use
'em? Strikes me as a bit silly... B-)
> and yet I pay far more tax than a far more polluting daily commuter.
eh? Assuming all things equal, like commuter also having 4 cars, you pay
the same tax. Yes the commuter pollutes more but that doesn't affect this
tax level but then he pays way more in fuel duty.
> So slapping a few quid on such a daft tax and using bunny hugging as an
> excuse is irritating.
Bunnies shoot the litle perishers, almost overrun by the things here.
Farmers don't like 'em as they compete for grazing and trample the grass.
But yes hanging Road Tax increases on "green issues" is not fair on those
that need a vechicle, ie. almost everyone living outside of any medium
sized town, due to no public transport. Be much fairer to put 1% on fuel
duty, those that use more fuel, thus pollute more, pay more.
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