Driving abroad in an ev after new tax is introduced

Grumpy_chap

MyRealNameToo said:

Grumpy_chap said:
I, for one, don't want to pay a ppm charge that doesn't even fund the charge being collected.

Other than NI unfortunately thats how all taxes and duties work these days. There is no connection between how governmental revenue is generated and how it is spent. 

You misunderstood my comment.

The full piece I had said:

Grumpy_chap said:

There is a trade off between a simple system that is cheap to operate or a more complex model that requires capital infrastructure or tracking (which may mean privacy concerns are raised).

I, for one, don't want to pay a ppm charge that doesn't even fund the charge being collected.

So, what I meant was, that the simple 3 pence per mile regardless of where you drive or when you drive is simple and comparatively easy and cheap to collect.
Rather than a system that needs capital expenditure to roll out technology of some kind so that where and when you drive is correct and driving abroad can be deducted from the paid for miles.
So, at 3 ppm, we would be several years before the tax even covered the cost of the initial capital outlay.
That is what I mean by not pay a charge that doesn't even fund the charge being collected - a complex system would not actually pay for itself.

Not that the 3 ppm charge would not be ring fenced.
Although, in this clip, the Chancellor appears to link the ppm charge to road funding:
'Everybody uses the roads and so it is right that we ask people with electric cars to pay in'
https://www.facebook.com/bbcbreakfast/videos/everybody-uses-the-roads-and-so-it-is-right-that-we-ask-people-with-electric-car/1399920888149282/

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Grumpy_chap said:

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'Everybody uses the roads and so it is right that we ask people with electric cars to pay in'
https://www.facebook.com/bbcbreakfast/videos/everybody-uses-the-roads-and-so-it-is-right-that-we-ask-people-with-electric-car/1399920888149282/

Probably a "Think of the Children" statement- you become a pariah if you challenge it because "they" will make out that you are actually saying that EVs that use and wear out the roads shouldn't pay towards their upkeep.

(We will quietly forget about VED...)

And it isn't a falsehood, a minute % of the revenue raised will go towards repairing the roads!