Fuel duty e-mail

[NozSpark]

Got this e-mail the other day........

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Please sign it, it takes 2 minutes, then pass it on to your whole address

book!!!

When VAT was temporarily reduced to 15%, the Chancellor added 2% duty to

fuel to offset the reduction in tax collected from motorists. Now that VAT

has been increased to 17.5% again this hidden tax has not been removed -

hence recent rises in your fuel costs. Sign the petition at the link below

to have this stealth tax removed!

<http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DutyReduction/>

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DutyReduction/

Please pass this on to your friends - the more the merrier. Happy motoring!

 

[Apache]

No chance of them dropping it. The country's broke.

 

[Lurch]

No chance of them dropping it. The country's broke.

Yep, read through some of the other petitions and responses. It's just there to make you think you have a chance, complete waste of time, they'll do what they want, and even if they drop the 2% it'll be added to something else, or there'll be some other 2% increase on fuel which is coincidentally nothing to do with the 2% that was removed.

 

[NozSpark]

I know there is now way of getting it removed

Just another backdoor tax!

 

[SteveH37]

Backdoor Brown and his band of merry robbing baaasterds.

Dont forget road tax duty too, going up in April 2010 for almost everyone.

 

[ianmacd]

I signed the one asking for them to make Clarkson PM (although I should have had my security clearance revoked for that) and all we got was a stupid video in responce. They didnt take it seriously so then there was a petition to take the petition seriously.

Waste of time just like the current govt.