price of diesel and petrol...

Deals_2

just query. how much does the treasury take on this? if they take a percentage then i cannot see why the treasury/government could not decrease their cut and then this would have avoid things being so expensive and putting everyone into a recession or am i misundertanding things....

djheath

You forgot the part where the treasury love all the tax we pay them.

Deals_2

then they wonder why we think they are greedy...!

djheath wrote: »

You forgot the part where the treasury love all the tax we pay them.

tightbarsteward

Deals wrote: »

just query. how much does the treasury take on this? if they take a percentage then i cannot see why the treasury/government could not decrease their cut and then this would have avoid things being so expensive and putting everyone into a recession or am i misundertanding things....

I can see it & you can see it, but as the price of everything goes up the government collect more in VAT. Lets hope this is their downfall.

By the way I believe the total tax on fuel is around 75% of the price at the pump.

mummytofour

The thing is we have a welfare state and that needs to be paid for, nobody wants to pay more income tax so the tax is applied to petrol.

geordie_joe

Deals wrote: »

just query. how much does the treasury take on this? if they take a percentage then i cannot see why the treasury/government could not decrease their cut and then this would have avoid things being so expensive and putting everyone into a recession or am i misundertanding things....

The treasury needs £xxxx per year to pay for everything, if it reduced the tax on fuel there would have to be an equal increase on the tax on something else.

Personally I think they should "means test" Child Benefit. Stop giving it to the rich and it would save a lot of money.

vikingaero

geordie_joe wrote: »

Personally I think they should "means test" Child Benefit. Stop giving it to the rich and it would save a lot of money.

The rich generally only have one or two "orfspring". Benefit chavsters seem to pop out a new sprog every year.:D

geordie_joe

vikingaero wrote: »

The rich generally only have one or two "orfspring". Benefit chavsters seem to pop out a new sprog every year.:D

That's true, but their are a lot of people getting it that don't need it.

wymondham

Deals wrote: »

just query. how much does the treasury take on this? if they take a percentage then i cannot see why the treasury/government could not decrease their cut and then this would have avoid things being so expensive and putting everyone into a recession or am i misundertanding things....

I heard a rumour today that there will be another petrol strike like the one in 2000 this coming Saturday - anyone know any more??

Mikeyorks

It's ('Transaction 2007') - been in the news for a few months now - but the target date of this Saturday only crystallised a week or so ago :-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,2225482,00.html

Deals_2

seems to waste some much of tax payers money on councils . i see the money waste on installing this recycling business in surrey. they wasted so much money and still are when there are easier ways to do it!!!!! maybe i should go into politics!!!!

Mikeyorks wrote: »

It's ('Transaction 2007') - been in the news for a few months now - but the target date of this Saturday only crystallised a week or so ago :-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,2225482,00.html