if you drive a car in the uk you have heard the goverment on the travel tax that they plan to put into place so we have to pay for every mile there is a petition on the goverment web site so what are u waiting for the address is http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/ its our money we are getting taxed to much so stand up and say no
2007-01-05 04:18:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United Kingdom
Be a good idea for me I do about 800 miles a year in my car and the rest in my van and the customer has to pay anyway , so if the gvt want to charge me £1 a mile I put on my percentage and the customer pays I think I would actually be better off
2007-01-07 04:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by tim b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So the poor british driver is overtaxed?
Doesn't seem to stop him or her using the car though, does it?
Besides what's wrong with "pay as you go". We have this for utilities (electric, gas and water meters) some mobile phones and lots of other things.
If I eat twice as many potatoes as you shouldn't I pay more for them? So if you use the road more than I do then you should pay more than me.
This petition calls for the abolition of the concept and is wrongly targeted. In fact the proposed tax gives us a very easy way to control how much tax we pay. What's wrong with that?
2007-01-05 15:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by tringyokel 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It will never happen! But that said we do not pay nearly enough tax in UK which is why our services are so poor. Increase taxation and have more police, more prisons, better healthcare and so on.
We get what we pay for! Or rather not....
2007-01-05 13:51:51 · answer #3 · answered by Davy B 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋