Fuel Tax/Car Tax - where does it all go?

[Beancounter1980]

Sad I know,

But as I was meandering through the various potholed streets on my way into work, and hearing all the crashing around me in my Zed. I was thinking where does all the revenue generated from the Tax go?

Seeing as it is a Car tax, surely it should be all spent on transport (Roads, transport etc), or am I being a bit misguided here.

On a more positive note, I turned down a job offer today. It involved being the head of Tax for my company.

 

[gannet]

sounds logical it should go on roads, but it doesnt

 

[Rudd]

On a more positive note, I turned down a job offer today. It involved being the head of Tax for my company.

LOL

The Newcastle area is terrible at the minute. i think the government fix london and the south first then just forget about the north, typical fashion really :thumbsdown:

 

[Beancounter1980]

On a more positive note, I turned down a job offer today. It involved being the head of Tax for my company.

LOL

The Newcastle area is terrible at the minute. i think the government fix london and the south first then just forget about the north, typical fashion really :thumbsdown:

I'm back up there on the 20th onwards for a week. Should be eventful!

Ah yes, Let's not forget the Quango Bill - Well over £100 Billion.

Quango's being unelected committees who get paid handsomely for deciding what kind of soup will be served at a political 'bash'.

 

[gannet]

On a more positive note, I turned down a job offer today. It involved being the head of Tax for my company.

LOL

The Newcastle area is terrible at the minute. i think the government fix london and the south first then just forget about the north, typical fashion really :thumbsdown:

what makes you think it's fixed down here :?

it certainly aint :thumbsdown: those that have been filled in have since opened up again

totally shocking and poor

 

[Breaker]

No specifics on the tax system now. Just forget the prefix and just call it tax!! :thumbsdown:

 

[Tweed]

what makes you think it's fixed down here :?

As a southerner relocated up North, I can definitely say the roads in the North are 10x worse than those down south.
It may be the marginally harsher winters making the tarmac more brittle or something, but there're definitely more holes in the road up here

Council spending is just ludicrous, money is spent digging up perfectly good roads and refilling them to eat up budget so the same gets allocated the next financial year. Meanwhile a terrible road a few miles away gets left as that area doesn't get as much in their budget because the first area spent all theirs so they must need it.

Next year Area A gets their nice big budget again, which they spend on "traffic calming" measures to make people late so they speed through their shiny new speed cameras, generating more revenue that they can put into digging a moat for their second house.

All the while, we're being fleeced for more and more of our hard earned every day to pay for advertising and propaganda to 'help' us decide which bunch of lying w**kers will f**k up the country for the next 4 years.




...aaaaand breath...

 

[Rudd]

what makes you think it's fixed down here :?

As a southerner relocated up North, I can definitely say the roads in the North are 10x worse than those down south.
It may be the marginally harsher winters making the tarmac more brittle or something, but there're definitely more holes in the road up here

Council spending is just ludicrous, money is spent digging up perfectly good roads and refilling them to eat up budget so the same gets allocated the next financial year. Meanwhile a terrible road a few miles away gets left as that area doesn't get as much in their budget because the first area spent all theirs so they must need it.

Next year Area A gets their nice big budget again, which they spend on "traffic calming" measures to make people late so they speed through their shiny new speed cameras, generating more revenue that they can put into digging a moat for their second house.

All the while, we're being fleeced for more and more of our hard earned every day to pay for advertising and propaganda to 'help' us decide which bunch of lying w**kers will f**k up the country for the next 4 years.




...aaaaand breath...

Nice!

 

[gannet]

what makes you think it's fixed down here :?

As a southerner relocated up North, I can definitely say the roads in the North are 10x worse than those down south.
It may be the marginally harsher winters making the tarmac more brittle or something, but there're definitely more holes in the road up here

Council spending is just ludicrous, money is spent digging up perfectly good roads and refilling them to eat up budget so the same gets allocated the next financial year. Meanwhile a terrible road a few miles away gets left as that area doesn't get as much in their budget because the first area spent all theirs so they must need it.

Next year Area A gets their nice big budget again, which they spend on "traffic calming" measures to make people late so they speed through their shiny new speed cameras, generating more revenue that they can put into digging a moat for their second house.

All the while, we're being fleeced for more and more of our hard earned every day to pay for advertising and propaganda to 'help' us decide which bunch of lying w**kers will f**k up the country for the next 4 years.




...aaaaand breath...

but so true about the money/advertising

Think it is down to the county council's, from where down south did you relocate from?

10 x worse than Surrey and I simply wouldn't venture out

 

[Tweed]

but so true about the money/advertising

Think it is down to the county council's, from where down south did you relocate from?

10 x worse than Surrey and I simply wouldn't venture out

Grew up for the first 20 odd years just south of Cambridge, then moved down to West Sussex (Chichester, to be exact). Have to travel straight through Surrey between the two

Now my journey between Manchester and Chichester/Cambridge takes me straight down the M6, then either M40 - a34 - m3 to Chi or A14 to Cambs & there's a point either towards the end of the M40 or the beginning of the A14 where the roads get noticeably better!

 

[gannet]

maybe all the money goes on the main roads (dual A and M) down here :idunno:

certainly all the side roads are apalling.

 

[OwenT]

Totally agree Gannet... Dual carridgeways seem pretty much ok, but venture off onto anything else & they are in a very bad way indeed, how on earth its got to this state without something being done is beyond me... :evil: :evil: :evil:

 

[z4alfie]

It goes on Lambrini and Superkings for the lazy tw**ts and Tw**tesses that wont get off thier arses to go to work. Granted, it doesnt go directly to them, it goes via the treasury where it meets up with our income tax, National Insurance,VAT, Airport landing duty,inheritance taxes and the rest of the stealth charges invented by this lot of red flag waving hypocrits. Then it gets dished out to the Dole wallers in time for them to drag themselves to the Post Office. If the kids are lucky they might get a Mcdonalds to keep them going until they get to school where we pay for thier dinner. If Labour win this election Ill expect someone to pass me a Dozen Prozac and a handgun and Ill leave you all to it.

 

[z4alfie]

After my earlier rant, my car tax reminder has arrived today. its a total conspiracy to tip me over the edge

 

[lacroupade]

It goes on Lambrini and Superkings for the lazy tw**ts and Tw**tesses that wont get off thier arses to go to work. Granted, it doesnt go directly to them, it goes via the treasury where it meets up with our income tax, National Insurance,VAT, Airport landing duty,inheritance taxes and the rest of the stealth charges invented by this lot of red flag waving hypocrits. Then it gets dished out to the Dole wallers in time for them to drag themselves to the Post Office. If the kids are lucky they might get a Mcdonalds to keep them going until they get to school where we pay for thier dinner. If Labour win this election Ill expect someone to pass me a Dozen Prozac and a handgun and Ill leave you all to it.

surely you don't begrudge the benefit classes their shell suits, flat screen TVs, laptops, spanish holidays etc..? Next thing you'll be suggesting we put them on unpaid work, clearing up the s**t they litter the country with.... :roll:

 

[mikedav]

It all goes into the pot and is used as much to pay for schools, hospitals and god knows what else as it is the roads and transport infrastructure....indirect taxation. If fuel tax and road tax were lower, we would have to stump up the cash elsewhere - perhaps an NHS tax and a schools tax...though I would prefer that, at least it is clear what goes where. My complaint is more the sheer volume of money being collected and exactly how it is spent. You can bet your salary that there is more bureaucracy, committees, general wastage and inefficiency in the public sector than any private enterprise could ever sustain....and thus they need to collect billions more than they probably actually need in order to cover it.