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This should be passed to as many people as possible! When VAT was temporarily reduced to 15%, the Chancellor added 2% duty to fuel to offset the reduction in tax collected from motorists. Now that VAT has been increased to 17.5% again this hidden tax has not been removed - hence recent rises in your fuel costs. Sign the petition at the link below to have this stealth tax removed!
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DutyReduction/

Asked on 29 May 2010 by ST, via email

Answered by Honest John
Put it this way: the difference between UK government total expenditure and total tax revenue is increasing the national debt at a rate of £448 million a month. National debt to the rest of the world currently stands at £114 billion. How else do you propose paying it back? Don't you think you have a bit more to worry about than an extra 2.5% VAT on fuel?

Real MPG enables you to register the fuel economy you are actually getting against your make and model of car, its engine and type of transmission.

Every time you enter an average consumption figure against your car, the overall average automatically adjusts to reflect it.

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