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Road fund license to be scrapped??
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<blockquote data-quote="Trikky2" data-source="post: 523619" data-attributes="member: 240"><p>Interesting discussion.</p><p></p><p>Here in France they dropped road tax on private cars some years ago - (but commercial vehicles still pay something similar).</p><p></p><p>The tax on fuel works out quite fair in my opinion.</p><p>When I lived in the UK and covered a lot of miles I always thought it unfair the way I paid the same as the little old lady down the road who drove maybe 1000 miles a year.</p><p></p><p>Here you pay for what you use, both in terms of mileage and in terms of economy. It costs the same to drive 10,000 kms in a small car doing 50 mpg as it does to drive 5000 in a big one only doing 25 mpg. What could be fairer than that? As far as i can see, it encourages both economic vehicles and driving less miles.</p><p></p><p>There is also an additional advantage in that foreign vehicles, of which there are a lot traversing the country, also contribute their share, in a way that is far simpler and more equitable than the absurd system they introduced in Switzerland.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trikky2, post: 523619, member: 240"] Interesting discussion. Here in France they dropped road tax on private cars some years ago - (but commercial vehicles still pay something similar). The tax on fuel works out quite fair in my opinion. When I lived in the UK and covered a lot of miles I always thought it unfair the way I paid the same as the little old lady down the road who drove maybe 1000 miles a year. Here you pay for what you use, both in terms of mileage and in terms of economy. It costs the same to drive 10,000 kms in a small car doing 50 mpg as it does to drive 5000 in a big one only doing 25 mpg. What could be fairer than that? As far as i can see, it encourages both economic vehicles and driving less miles. There is also an additional advantage in that foreign vehicles, of which there are a lot traversing the country, also contribute their share, in a way that is far simpler and more equitable than the absurd system they introduced in Switzerland. [/QUOTE]
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