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Should avaricious Labour cut fuel tax?

SOARING fuel prices will allow Labour to siphon off a record £4million every hour in duty from motorists this year.

SHOULD AVARICIOUS LABOUR CUT FUEL TAX.

25.05.08, 7:52pm

Ofcourse they should, I'm a self employed owner driver of a 38ton artic, it does on average 7 miles to the gallon, so for me to travel 7 miles it costs me nearly 6 quid, absolutely diabolical, disgusting, the wagon can generate about £60,000 a year of which the Government take about £38,000 in taxes, I take £15,000 and they take another £6,000 of that, the £7,000 thats left goes on servicing etc. so at the end of the day, I buy the wagon, tax and insure it, I do all the work, they get £44,000 and I get £9,000 should be the other way round.
These degenerates will never reduce the fuel tax, it's too much of an earner for them and they need the money to pay for the Civil Services Gold Plated pensions, I believe THAT now costs us £1trillion a year and is set to increase by £27 billion next year and £26 billion the year after that. Anyway, like someone else said, soon I won't be able to afford to go to work, so I'll just have to live off the state. Does that mean I'll have to vote Labour ?, Sorry, I'd rather starve.

• Posted by: bobdee • Report Comment

CUTTING FUEL TAX - DOES GOV THINK WE'RE STUPID!!!

22.05.08, 8:09am

Tax shouldnt even be considered. I think UK people should be given a heck of a rebate!!

When pterol was 90 p a litre last year, the exchange rate was 1.7$ to the £

We havent been given the 0.3 cents in the pound as a credit towards keeping the fuel price in line......

Oil only contributes 30% towards the cost

a barrel of oil has 159 litres

Therefore 30% ish barrell of oil makes nearly 500 litres of petrol.....

so only if barrell goes up 10$ should we get 1 p on a litre!!!!!!!

iuncover this fiasco Express!!!!!

• Posted by: tj38marlow • Report Comment

FUEL TAX !

20.05.08, 8:36am

Why do we have this tax, in fact why are we taxed more than any other European nation? This TAX-TAX -TAX system stops us being a major player in the world of global politics because we are laughed at, once we were the top dogs but now we have been overtaken by the so called developing nations who appear to have developed, leaving us behindn their wake.

If fuel costs were cut by reducing the amount of tax that we pay on it it would go a long way towards getting back on line but this government can only wage war on private enterprise profits they think that high taxes are justified and the only cut should be on their profits not taxes. If the system were run correctly taxes could be cut and profits still controlled in a fair manner, but Labour would not like that, it would mean them having to admit that they have been wrong for a long time. this is not the only unfair tax we pay, there are many, levied at the slightest excuse to introduce a new one every few days.

FOTTNOTE :

One of the most unfair is the TV licence fee. When the BBC was the only broadcasting system in this country and advertising was unheard of it was reasonable and justified to keep the service going. Now the BBC has diversified and introduced many more Radio and TV channels which get a considerable income from advertising the justification for a licence fee is questionable, Labours spin people will come up with a justification story from some where but I dare say that the huge amount of money raised by both fuel tax and TV licence fees will be diverted away from there original purpose. It is a Labour trick to get money for one purpose and use it for another.

• Posted by: albertthedog • Report Comment

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YES, FUEL TAXES ARE AFFECTING EVERYONE...

14.05.08, 11:28am

but what can we do about it? We Brits are hopeless at complaining in an effective way simply because we are too polite to do so and the powers that be jolly well know it!

You cannot uninvent the motor car; it has been our vehicle of freedom for the last eighty years or so. It's all right for you London townies who can just pop on the tube or bendy bus but what about the suburbanites or the country folk who regard our cars as necessities rather than luxuries?

Why, oh why, do motor manufacturers still produce high performance large engined cars for our roads that have a 70 mph national limit? It's quite ironic that when we had no speed limits, the average car could only chug up to about 60 or 70 and then, only for brief periods. Now since 1966 when the dreadful 70 limit came in on a permanent basis, the performance of average family cars can exceed the ton and sustain that speed all day.

I remember when the M1 first opened, car engines were blowing up all along it because they just could not take the prolonged high speeds. I am not suggesting that we all go back to driving Morris Minors but why do you need an engine bigger than 1400 cc in a family car?

• Posted by: Zeigfreid • Report Comment

FLYER

12.05.08, 11:57am

i hope you are aware that cyprus just elected a communist government.

have fun!

• Posted by: crayfishbanker • Report Comment

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FLYER

11.05.08, 11:36am

Be careful in Cyprus. They have a dire shortage of something more precious than petrol and that's water.

• Posted by: Zeigfreid • Report Comment

MARIONETTE DARLING AND MARTINET BROWN PERFORM THE GREAT FUEL TAX FARCE

10.05.08, 10:42am

Here we go again with another tax crisis managed by the same Punch and Judy show that has mismanaged Britain to its knees. Dopy Darling doesn't have a clue what he is doing and just knee jerks to martinet Browns string pulling. Neither have the wit to see the damage they are doing with their numbskull approach to ripoff taxation and the resentment caused by their cashing in on world fuel price rise. The hype in fuel prices is fueling inflation through increased distribution costs and resulting rise in food costs .Everyone is going to need a pay rise to cope with the cost of motoring so a summer of discontent is brewing. For many people the cost of getting to work is going to be too high so the number of people going on benefits is going to increase. Our haulage industry is suffering and companies are going out of business, they will be replaced by foreign lorries distributing goods in the UK with resultant safety implications. We desperately need a new puppeteer, one that can magic away the 75% tax on fuel and restore sanity to our transport industry and national mobility.

• Posted by: Dorsetrambler • Report Comment

SIMPLE SOLUTION

09.05.08, 9:52pm

Just knock government minister wages down to the same as those they're hurting with their high tax. They'll soon change it when they feel the pain too.

It wouldn't be so bad if they paid more than lip service to alternative energy sector investment, but they don't!

• Posted by: legalal • Report Comment

DO YOU THINK FUEL TAX IS OBSCENE?

09.05.08, 7:24pm

I have just filled up my car with fuel at £1.18 a liter that makes £5.31 a gallon making fuel to drive my car cost 11.8p per mile.

It is about time this government cut tax's on fuel or we will soon not be able to aford to go any ware by car.

But just like Gordon Brown he will stick his head in the sand again!!!

Cyprus here we come!

When we sell our house here soon we hope.

• Posted by: Flyer • Report Comment

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RED KEN

09.05.08, 2:39pm

Doing a deal with President Chavez, is like selling your soul to Beelzebub.

Hoorah, for Boris! It will be a pleasant change to see London run by a non-commie.

• Posted by: Zeigfreid • Report Comment

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AVARICIOUS

09.05.08, 2:34pm

I agree. What does it mean?

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WELL NOT AS UPMARKET AS YOU CFB

08.05.08, 5:13pm

Obviously !

• Posted by: marigold • Report Comment

DOES ANYONE WHO READS THIS PAPER

08.05.08, 1:30pm

even know what 'avaricious' means?

i think the express is trying to go 'upmarket'...

• Posted by: crayfishbanker • Report Comment

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CUT FUET TAX? HELL YES!!!

06.05.08, 6:47pm

When the government is making a cool £4,000,000 per hour from fuel tax, then too bloody right fuel tax's should be cut. How can we moan about the fuel companies making such big profits when the government get something in the region of 70% in tax. At least the oil companies are actually working for their money, unlike Gormless and his we want a 25% pay increase robbers. Cut fuel tax's and cut this Nu Labour's throats.

• Posted by: snaredrum • Report Comment

ANPJ2006

06.05.08, 1:43pm

I have news for you diesel is now at £5.54 a gallon up here in Aberdeen,
And another little snippet the rest of Europe is cheaper and bugger me we are an oil producing nation.
And their fuel tax is also their road tax,

The last time I was In Saudia it cost the price of 1 Gallon for 60 ltr, and that was back when it was 70p a ltr here

• Posted by: Mickle • Report Comment

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