Roger wrote:
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from "Man at B&Q" contains these words:

The one doing 60K is more likely to be doing longer journeys,
essential for their livelihood and running the car much more
efficiently. Why should they be penalised over the low mileage case
that is probably used for short, inefficient (ie more polluting per
mile) journeys?

I realised I took the extreme case in my example. Even if you removed
VED in a way that was revenue neutral for someone doing, say 12k miles
pa, you would still be adding about 60p/litre to fuel and penalising
higher mileages ouot of all proportion.

Out of all proportion to what?

Restrict the tax on cars to tax on fuel and the tax is automatically in
proportion to the pollution regardless of the length of each individual
journey or the total mileage.

I think we have someone else here who 'doesn't count' Roger..;-)