"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article 47dc63b8@qaanaaq,
Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-03-15 23:45:15 +0000, "Dave Plowman (News)"
said:

In article ,
:Jerry: wrote:
Care to run that by me again? You want to stop car use
entirely?

No, link the tax they pay to the amount they *use* the vehicle
and
thus the amount of pollution they cause - that means that the
tax
should be on the fuel and not the *wish* to use the vehicle.

This would effect business users most and put up the cost of
virtually
everything - including those goods bought by non car owners. Is
that
what you want?

So discount/rebate for essential business use. This is already
done
for agricultural diesel.

But you don't take a tractor to a filling station. Discounting fuel
from
an ordinary filling station for certain users would be a nightmare
to
implement and police.

Not a problem with vehicle fitted with tachographs, a simple
calculation on declared (recorded) mileage, this will be even easier
once all these vehicles have been fitted with the tamper proof
electronic version.

I can just imagine all the moans on here if they put up the price of
fuel
even more to cover the loss of VED income.


Only amongst those who are clueless, putting extra duty on fuel will
mean that one only pays for what people use whilst being a far more
efficient way of making people think about fuel consumption than a
blunt tax on ownership/wish to use can ever be.