Red diesel to get the chop!

[Lancpudn]

Looks like they will scrap the lower rate tax duty on red diesel in the budget, Food prices on the rise then!
https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/marke...esel-duty-rate

[planenut]

It must be difficult for some when they see EU subsidies and fuel tax relief changing their income levels.

That will certainly be bad news for those that take advantage by illegally using low tax fuels.

[macafee2]

Originally Posted by planenut

It must be difficult for some when they see EU subsidies and fuel tax relief changing their income levels.

That will certainly be bad news for those that take advantage by illegally using low tax fuels.

na, they will just steale it

macafee2

[Russp]

Just think what that will do to train fares , and the amount of extra lorries on the road as rail freight gets more expensive

[edwardmk]

Originally Posted by Lancpudn

Looks like they will scrap the lower rate tax duty on red diesel in the budget, Food prices on the rise then!
https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/marke...esel-duty-rate

This is the problem with all governments. They have an unlimited appetite for their subjects' hard earned cash. Couple this with a general failure in 'joined up thinking' and eventually you end up with 95% taxes (which have been tried before under Labour in the 70's). For this to be suggested by a Conservative government is deeply disappointing if true. I hope common sense prevails and they dump the idea. This government has made a lot of expensive promises, so panic is no doubt beginning to set in as to how they afford everything! The most ridiculous thing is that every time any government announce a massive increase in spending, the opposition cries 'too little too late' or 'austerity'. How about some consensus in the national interest?
Nevertheless, I'd be in favour of red diesel spot checks on tractors towing giant trailers for miles up and down the A30 every day.

[RobSun]

The reasoning behind the plan to scrap red diesel is not so much to get more tax, but it will, but to reduce its usage to clean up the particulate produced. The idea is to "encourage" farmers, construction industry, etc that use it to look sooner than later into cleaner fuels or methods.

Cannot see somehow an electric combine harvester or tractor ploughing a field lasting long on a charge or for that matter an excavator on a building site.

[trikey]

How will the red arrows cope now!!!

[RPWC]

In the UK we are taxed to death while you are alive and after you die, your family get taxed to death. We are still trying to get my late aunt’s estate settled and hoping not to have to pay a 5 figure sum in inheritance tax. HMRC are useless,as are the probate and land registry. You owe them money and you have to,pay on time or get fined and interest added, you WANT SOMETHING from them and you can’t get anywhere. Due to government cuts they are all understaffed, so one department blames the other and vice versa. The p r don’t even answer the phone, you could ring 20 times a day and no one will answer.

[Lancpudn]

I've been doing some more reading on red diesel and the farmers are already up in arms because of the Biofuel in red diesel, The farmers unions have been inundated with calls from farmers who are experiencing fuel problems with blocked filters on tractors & other farming machinery.

[WillyHeckaslike]

Originally Posted by trikey

How will the red arrows cope now!!!

They've been on borrowed time for some years now. Many in-house functions in the Air Force since 1989 in particular but not exclusively have aggressively been dispensed with altogether or placed out-of-house. My feeling is that the reds will go the same way eventually with a private outfit (possibly The Blades) fulfilling the role and jointly funded by private sponsors and the RAF - as the reds are now.



Yes, all smoke as it is currently generated by the reds might not pass muster for environmental reasons - it won't be tax. Lol.