On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:05:36 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article 47dcec04@qaanaaq,
Andy Hall wrote:
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. 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.

I wasn't particularly suggesting there. This is something that could
easily be handled through the VAT system for road transport users.

But they already reclaim VAT on fuel?

Not by any means all of them.

DG