Der Lebenshaltungskostenberater von Starmer fordert eine Verlängerung der Senkung der Treibstoffsteuer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy81g8ypz6do
Von topotaul
Der Lebenshaltungskostenberater von Starmer fordert eine Verlängerung der Senkung der Treibstoffsteuer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy81g8ypz6do
Von topotaul
11 Kommentare
Extend the fuel duty cut? No, it needs to be cut further.
I say this as someone who is rating Starmer highly recently, before I get downvotes
Fuel duty cuts is one of these stupid policies we got addicted to and now it’s unthinkable to end it.
This sort of fiddling is such utter populist nonsense.
If you want to fix cost of living you do things like making it easier and cheaper to build and rent housing, get energy costs down, get wages up, make it more viable for more people to start their own small business, get taxes down in general. Basically, actually add wealth to the general society. Not this kind of central-planning tweaky BS.
2p or 5p or even 10p on fuel duty is a triviality, we are talking a maximum of one or two hundred quid a year maximum even if you drive 20k miles at 40mpg.
Calculation: (20000/40)*4.54 = 2270 litres. At 5p it’s 113 quid a year.
The actual average annual mileage in the UK is 7500 so it isn’t even fifty quid.
The only reason most people even notice it is because the petrol stations are quite competitive on price, the signs have big letters, it sticks in the mind.
Why are we offering fossil fuel subsidies in 2026? It’s crazy!
Subsidise insulation and EVs. Get us out of this hole, not deeper in to it!
Utter nonsense to cut it. Petrol in real terms is cheaper than 20 years ago. Real terms – before the inflation illiterate start simple comparisons of prices now and in 2006.
What the hell is the point in freezing fuel duty when fuel is currently a limited resource we should be using less of? Freezes/cuts in fuel duty would not impact prices that much – and even if they did impact the price, it would enable more fuel to be used that otherwise would have been.
This is populist nonsense.
Remember when they cut it by 5p during COVID and the very next day all the fuel prices dropped by 5p….
These cuts (and delays to the fuel duty rises every single year) have been a silly accounting dodge for the government for decades. The OBR has to price in the duty increases into their projections even though EVERYONE knows that every year they are cancelled at the 11th hour.
So each year they make the government account look like a rosier forecast than reality by a few billion.
If fuel wasn’t taxed right now it would be like 76 pence a litre. The government is just pure greedy with our money
How much does fuel duty generate for the Gov, because any cut results in less income for Gov, less spending ability of Gov already under tight fiscal constraints.
https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/fuel-duties/
£24bn or 1.9% of income.
A fuel duty cut will just encourage people to drive more and so use more fuel. It is not going to increase the supply of petrol and diesel however so would make any fuel shortages worse.
If the government wants to help, cutting bus and train fares would be a better move. This would both reduce costs for people and would encourage people to use less petrol.
Yes, cutting prices/subsidising demand at a time of restricted supply is an excellent idea. This is why housing became so much more affordable after help to buy and 95% mortgage guarantee schemes.