Vat on fuel - Extra Hidden duty, Did you know this? Please sign the petition

hothothot_3

Just had an Email re the info below. Thought you all may be interested.

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/


Please pass this on and get as many of your friends to sign. :beer:

Inactive

Waste of time and effort, wait until after the election, fuel duty will rocket.

hothothot_3

Inactive wrote: »

Waste of time and effort, wait until after the election, fuel duty will rocket.

cmon, just sign it.

Mr glass half empty.

Inactive

Sorry, there really isn't any point, fuel duty will increase, those petitions are mainly a complete waste of space, nobody does anything about them, they are designed to fool the masses in to thinking that the powers that be actually give a toss about what any of us think.

hothothot_3

Inactive wrote: »

Sorry, there really isn't any point, fuel duty will increase, those petitions are mainly a complete waste of space, nobody does anything about them, they are designed to fool the masses in to thinking that the powers that be actually give a toss about what any of us think.

perhaps, but what else can we do about it?

Inactive

hothothot wrote: »

perhaps, but what else can we do about it?

In a nutshell, SFA.:D

Wig

If they remove the 2%, do you really think the forecourts wil reduce their prices? Of course they won't, they'll just laugh all the way to the bank, and if they do have a token reduction the price will be back up within a couple of weeks.

Duty on fuel should go up by 10p a litre and VED (car tax) scrapped for ever.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

Number 10 petitions are designed only to make people think that they're actually helping to make a difference.

They're almost always ignored, and are therefore a waste of time.

Inactive

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

Number 10 petitions are designed only to make people think that they're actually helping to make a difference.

They're almost always ignored, and are therefore a waste of time.

Indeed, they are designed to placate the masses.

pitkin2020

Hothothot is the petitions page your homepage by any chance??

System

Whether the VAT reduced or not the extra duty was always going to be added. The petition will achieve nothing.