Vitally important - proposed stealth tax for car owners?
Apparently the government are trying to introduce a tracking device to all cars so that we may be taxed for our monthly mileage. the trackers cost around £200 (that you will have to buy) and you will get a monthly bill based on your mileage. also with your whereabouts being tracked at all times, if you go over the speed limit expect a speeding fine with your monthly bill. to stop this put the following web page into your address bar and sign the online petition. thank youhttp://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/tell your friends, forward it to eextremelybody and somebody.it is a stealth tax in the way that it is going to be introduced. the reason why nobody has heard of it because its introduction has been through the back door.
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Jay duh....the uk motorists pays an extortionae amount of tax to the government. until recently there was a specific tax on cars which was supposedly hypothecated for road maintenance & building. it was called the road fund licensce... around £160 per year.. these days the governemnt is slightly less dishonest.. it now calls it vehicle excise duty. even the meagre amount the government passes onto local authoprities who do the maintnenance gets syphoned off into other vitally important areas like caring for refugees, social services, council pensions and the like.... somewhere between 5& 10% of a new cars purchase price, plus sales tax 17.5% on any sale of cars, fuel or whateverthe uk motorist pays a whopping amout of tax on fueluk fuel is around 85 p per litre at present.... thats£3.86 per gallon..... converted to us frame of reference $7.56 per gallon, or around $9.20 per us gallon. start calculating you mileage and fuel consumption on those sort of prices and you will see why there is concern over this issue.as regards survellance.. already most major uk roads have a camera / computer number plate recognition system that works in real time.. pop a number on the search list and if that vehicle is on a major trunk road (motorway or a road) then it will be spotted....... but adding a gps tracker.. (which i suspect has more to do with how the eu is going to fund its palinly barking gallileo satellite system) means that the governemtn has the ability in real time to knwo where vehicles are.. the technology alredy exists, with many commercail operators haveing real time satellite navigation so they know ehre there fleet are, or know if their fleet is being diverted from its planned or projected route.
