Carry on with your mistaken belief that VED (or RFL as you prefer) has
anything to do with road maintenance - it doesn't, it's just another form of general taxation ... and has been since 1937.
Eh
So I pay Car Tax, RFL, VED call it what you will and it all goes into the big pot, does that pot not contribute to road maintenance? Seems to me that is
anything,,,
Next you will be telling me the sugar tax (initially promised to be used for nutrition and obesity programmes but now subsumed into the general tax pot) and tobacco tax doesn't feed back into the NHS, shock horror
Fact is IF the taxation received from motor related sources were to be fed solely into the road infrastructure our roads would be billiard table smooth etc. IFS reckon taxes on motoring raise
around £40 billion a year for the exchequer (around 5% of government revenue), equivalent to about £750 per adult in the UK.
The motorist has and will continue to be treated as a Cash Cow hence EV's will be required to pay Car Tax (RFL) shortly as the Government can't lose that income.
I've argued for years that the ICE Car Tax should be on the fuel (I appreciate a large part of fuel cost is already tax).
Want to drive a big engined car, pay more tax.
Don't want to service/maintain (tyre pressures for instance), pay more tax.
Want to drive like a spanner, pay more tax.
Drive more miles, pay more tax etc. etc.
So Granny Muff that does 500 miles a year pays little road tax but Johnny McCompany Car doing 30,000 miles a year pays more tax.
Maybe it's just me that smells a rat
Wait - you genuinely believe that any income from VED is ring-fenced for road maintenance? ?????
You mean like the sugar tax, look what happened to that.
You will be telling us next that you can't have a TV unless you have a TV licence
