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Nasir

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Poster at petrol station
« on: October 25, 2012, 07:11:18 pm »
I found this quite interesting, at a BP near me the till had this little poster which showed the tax on £30 worth of fuel. 60% to 40% iirc. Then it went on to say motorists need to be aware of how much tax they are paying. I think it's about time they did this. Anything like this at a petrol station near you?
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Re: Poster at petrol station
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2012, 07:20:13 pm »

Used to have this on the pumps in Germany
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Re: Poster at petrol station
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2012, 07:21:40 pm »
in one word, pointless

The government can charge what they like, you don't have a choice.

If the tax was less the petrol station retailers would bump the price up
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Re: Poster at petrol station
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2012, 10:02:48 pm »
In the October issue of Top Gear magazine they had some figures (not sure what they based them on).

In 2003 the duty was 75.6% of the cost of petrol and in 2011 it was 58.6%. Basically the petrol companies are making much more profit now a days.
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Re: Poster at petrol station
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2012, 11:50:43 am »
All set out here chaps in the AA's monthly fuel reports

http://www.theaa.com/resources/Documents/pdf/motoring-advice/fuel-reports/october2012.pdf

http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/fuel/

Ok so the amount of duty in percentage terms may have reduced but the tax take has increased.

at current price of £6.662 per gallon and tax of 56.2% thats still £3.75 in tax for every gallon of fuel.  :sick: :sick:
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