On Jan 15, 12:09*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:31:56 +0000

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:53:30 on Tue, 15 Jan
2013, remarked:
The road tax as it exists at the moment is to all intents and purposes
a flat fare.

Most of the revenue to maintain the roads comes from fuel duty & VAT.

Well it all comes from the treasury pot so its rather academic how much is
raised by which tax since none of them are specifically reserved to be spent
on the roads. But you still have to tax an insure your car if its on a public
road even if you pushed it yourself.

It's the same argument as is going on in a parallel thread about
buying "green" electricity or nuclear electricity when it all comes
out of the national grid. All the money comes out of the general pot
of mixed funds. There is no way to identify whether a particular
pound spent on filling a pothole came from fuel duty, VAT on fuel,
duty on beer, income tax, national insurance or corporation tax.

Robin