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Millions face insurance hikes - but you can beat them

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Millions of households and drivers face a steep rise in the cost of new insurance policies, following the latest hike in the tax that insurers are charged....
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I read this on the BBC site yesterday, the comment was its a tax on the insurer not the customer. The insurer does not have to pass it onto the customer.
Something smelly and linked to farm animals me thinks.
Also, as the extra 2% is being passed onto the consumer, I can't see why they would increase the base cost to "allow for the extra 2%". Especially as they can increase it how they please anyway.
I know any increase at all shouldn't be brushed off as not being a bit deal, but I do feel as though the media are going a bit overboard.
Non-consumer customers should be the ones to be most upset about it when every 1% could potentially mean hundreds of thousands. Not little old John that's going to be paying an extra £2 on his car insurance and £1 on his house insurance.
It won't end here either. I've said ever since it went up to 6% that it will keep going up until it's in line with VAT (like it is in Germany).