Fuel tax v road user charge

摘要

Your editorial suggests that user charging for roads should be introduced (NCE 3 June). In fact we already have user charging in the form of fuel tax.rnThis is enough to pay for more maintenance and new roads than we can use.rnWe pay in the order of ￡25 bn in fuel tax and ￡5bn in road taxes and yet the Highways Agency only spent ￡2.3bn in 2006/7.rnNo need for some expensive high tech extra tax. No need for more taxes, we just need to get a small portion of the money we have paid spent on roads.