The increase in duty planeed for September has been cancelled in today's budget.
Remains at just the 200 % then...
Fuel
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MellowYellow
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Fuel
Have you noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster is a maniac ?
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CharlieChan
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Re: Fuel
Small crumbs to try and keep people from revolt.
The real truth is you earn £100
You pay 25% tax on that (£25) leaving £75
Out of that £75 you spend £25 on each of petrol, fags and beer
Petrol is 80% tax so you pay £20 more tax
Fags are 75% tax so that's roughly £18 tax
Beer is 30% tax (i think) so thats £7 ish
So you earn't £100 and the government had back £70
Something isn't quite right there!
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The real truth is you earn £100
You pay 25% tax on that (£25) leaving £75
Out of that £75 you spend £25 on each of petrol, fags and beer
Petrol is 80% tax so you pay £20 more tax
Fags are 75% tax so that's roughly £18 tax
Beer is 30% tax (i think) so thats £7 ish
So you earn't £100 and the government had back £70
Something isn't quite right there!
CC
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badgerKDD
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Re: Fuel
Yeah well, I got one over on the government, I gave up fags...............that's £18 the b'stards won't get from me ;) !!
Cut me in half and I'v got Suzuki written right through me!
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CharlieChan
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Re: Fuel
I only qualify on one of those these days! Well one and a bit ;)Kata wrote:Beer and fags as well as petrol?!
I remember those days...
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