"soup" wrote in message
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On 09/02/2019 13:35, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
And cyclists
get 'free' use of the roads too.

Really Dave that old canard?

Cyclists pay as much tax as motorists.
VED (missnamed by lots as road tax) does NOT go towards road
maintenance/building.

OK. How about putting it this way. Cyclists do not have to pay a tax that
motorists do have to pay, which is not ring-fenced for road
building/maintenance. In that sense, they pay less tax than motorists do.
They do, of course, pay similar income tax and VAT, dependent on their
earnings and their purchases.

Given that VED is graduated partly by vehicle weight, for HGVs, it is hard
to say that it is not related to the damage the heavier vehicles cause and
therefore the greater road maintenance needed, even if there is no formal
link.