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TAX CLUB As an owner-driver of 15 years and a
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fully paid up member of the government tax club, I find the urge to write to you stronger than ever. On the government's announcement of vehicle excise duty reductions, it would appear that because there are real alternatives to paying VED in this country,
Gordon Brown has realised he is losing vast amounts of money from his ever increasing war chest, and therefore has had to act to stem the flow.
Fuel duty is a different matter, however—there is no real alternative to buying it here. OK, international hauliers can buy some abroad, but this opt-out is not available to LIK-only hauliers who make up most of the fleet. The government therefore has the upper hand and any concessions will be miserly.
They dismiss the essential user rebate as being too bureaucratic but they refuse to realise one is already in place with VAT. If they made duty less and VAT more on diesel this would help the already decimated haulage industry while Mr Brown would still receive his duty on other fuel.
The announcement of a 3p/lit cut is welcome, but the oil companies jumped on the band wagon and put 3p on diesel.
Perhaps the best thing to do is buy a bandwagon...there seems to be quite a demand for them at the moment. Well I've got to feed the kids somehow. Fli Bowers, Milnrow, Rochdale.