Transport Committee Report: Taxes and charges on road users

[Satch]

Well well. What surprise. I suppose there will be Select Committee soon that will be telling us that bears do in fact poo in the woods.

"The Government handled a phased set of increases to Vehicle Excise Duty so badly they tarnished the image of environmental taxes.


Report: Taxes and charges on road users | Parliament News

 

[st13phil]

The Government handled a phased set of increases to Vehicle Excise Duty so badly they tarnished the image of environmental taxes

That statement presumes that "environmental taxes" have an image that could be tarnished

 

[Dryce]

That statement presumes that "environmental taxes" have an image that could be tarnished

I think the statement has been jumbled a bit. What they really meant was that the handling of VED had tarnished the government.

 

[yachtman]

what a sad country we have become!!! that tax can have an image!

tax is tax and nothing else

 

[scumbag]

tax is tax and nothing else

No, tax is inevitable.....like rain I think the song goes.