Road Charging?

Question

Once again the motorists are having to pay to use the roads, does this mean the end of Car Tax.

Answer 1

no it just means another 20000 unemployed cos they cant afford to get to work but hey not to worry they will just be replaced by a eastern European on half the salary

Answer 2

What charges are they bringing in now? Its bad enough that there is the daylight robbery tax - oops - I meant the congestion charge without more being proposed. I appreciate that at some point someone do-gooder assumes that any money raised from car tax and congestion charge and the like should in some part go towards fixing pot-holes and the like but lets be honest. That money is being syphoned off somewhere else. We have huge pot-holes on our road that you could drop and lose a small child in. Many side roads have had humps placed on them yet that was all that the work were ordered to do - they must have been scratching the heads to see that they were only allowed to place humps and not fill in pot-holes whilst there with all the materials and equipment. Absolutely criminal. But if I don't pay my council tax, car tax or congestion charge I'm soon being hauled to court. Where's the justice? When can drivers get a break? Would Ken Livingston go easier on drivers if he drove? I also heard that the government is proposing to place black boxes into every car and newer cars would have them built in already. That way we all get charged for travelling long distances and during peak hours.

Answer 3

Nothing means the end of any tax, ever.

The Government will have to face up, one day, to how they'll raise money when we're all living in mud huts and never going out of the village we were born in. It's taken hundreds of thousands of years to get to where we are, and this is the first time that civilisation has been driven (sorry for pun) backwards towards the dark ages by a government. All ths Global Warming, green flannel is just a justification for increasing taxes. The real problem is that, thanks to big business, unions and self-serving, "never done a day's productive work" politicians, we don't any longer have a society to protect. We've been divided and conquered by our own people.

Anyway, back to Car Tax. VED (as it's now called) is paid straight into central government taxation funds to support things like the NHS,Trident Missiles, the welfare state. At least it is alleged that road tolls will be spent on transport schemes (although not necessarily roads).

I assume your question is prompted by the latest Treasury report. The problem with asking ex-BA Chairman Rod Eddington to study transport for the Treasury is that he can only spell 'airport', so his report is a bit of a joke because only last week, everyone in HMG was telling us that it was the end for cheap (and thus any) air travel. Eddington must have been too busy to notice, as he's still advocating building and expanding airports. Unsurprisingly, he's also discounted a new high speed rail link the length of the country - it might take some traffic out of the skies, I guess.

Answer 4

Hello,

Sadly I doubte it is my short answer to your question, why? because road tax is just far too lucrative for the government, it brings in literally billions of £'s for the treasury.

In my mind the only question is will the government replace road tax with some other form of tax and naturally it wont be lower/less than the current road tax charges. I'm think here of very steep carbon taxes that replace road taxes, each person will be given a personal carbon allowence per year (mostly travel related I guess may be heating related too in some way).

**Its all going to be taxes based on carbon emissions & carbon trading. But frankly I have no faith that carbon trading will work on a global or governmental level. I cannot see how this will really motivate people to stop using cars, transport and aircaft ,etc.

**The bottom line is in my opinion, that the cost of living will go up and that whatever you buy will cost more. Meanwhile carbon emissions & pollution will carry on as before, we are ducking the reality of the damage to the planet and its carry on as normal chaps!! We all fiddle as Rome burns down around us. Sorry! it wasnt meant to be depressing, only that I dont see we are talking action fast enough to counter the real threat from climate change. The politican will still be talking by the time the Thames dries up & a bottle of drinking water will cost you £50 a pop, if you can get it.

IR

Answer 5

Apart from the Motor way Toll road and the few toll bridges in the UK, there is only the London congestion charge at the moment, the Government has certainly been looking into the idea of charging people for thier journeys, and it would be done using a Sat Nav system. but it is only an idea at the moment.

Answer 6

No! the road fees are supposed to augment the money the state brings in for road repair and maintenance. The only way around it is to stay off of the roads that have toll booths. SORRY

Answer 7

I hope so

Answer 8

go home

Answer 9

no