Vehicle tax changes

[Martin306]

Still think it should be put onto fuel...

based on 10,000 miles a year, 45mpg, at 1.38 a litre, and £200 a year tax, it would go up to 1.56 a litre.

but most do more miles than that, and use less fuel, and pay less road tax, so I wouldnt see it needing to be more than 10p a litre extra.

It would encourage people to be more eco friendly, and those who use the roads most, causing the most wear and tear, would be the ones paying for it.
not some poor guys with track based cars paying over £200 a year to travel a few hundred miles each year to tracks

VED doesn't pay to maintain the roads anyway, it goes into public coffers.
We already have fuel duty which is fuel usage based taxation.

VED is simply a separate tax which generates revenue for the government.

I believe roads are maintained using the local councils' budgets which aren't directly funded by VED or fuel duty (?)

Nope, not a penny comes from that. Government deals councils a big pot of money every year, which is shared out between departments.

That department has to spend ALL of the money, otherwise it gets cuts. thats why you see stupid signs on the road, spending the whole budgets etc.