The cost of maintaining and building roads comes to 7.1 billion.
9 billion is taxed using VED
Fuel duty collections 24.26 billion
The government doesn't release the VAT numbers charged on fuel and it also charges VAT on Fuel duty - tax on tax. The estimate is another 10 bn
So that £43.26 billion of tax but 7.1 bn in services
A profit of 36.16 bn. 6.09 times the cost. A whacking profit.
So lets abolish VED. Costs a lot to collect. A lot to enforce.
Lets stop taxes being charged on taxes. No VAT on fuel.
We just have a transparent tax, fuel duty. That's set to raise the cost of maintaining roads. It's hard to dodge and evade. It's cheap to collect. 11 payments once a month from oil refineries. No need to reclaim VAT from HMRC for companies.
For electric cars, we charge 2p a mile. Less than the current tax raid. 2p roughly corresponds to fuel duty. Everyone pays. That's less than the government's current 3p a mile raid on electric cars.
Food costs drip, clothes drop. Makes online shopping cheaper, It's a major impact on the cost of living removed. Everyone is better off.