Businesses call for road charges

[Legal Beagles]

Car-users should be charged to use roads to help pay for upgrades, a business organisation claims.

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[iancognito]

Re: Businesses call for road charges

charging people every time they use their cars will help pay for road upgrades and better public transport.

Do you think someone should let the Welsh into the secret of road tax and fuel duty?

[Paradox]

Re: Businesses call for road charges

Car tax = Road Upgrades (or at least it should be )

Surely?

[Guest]

Re: Businesses call for road charges

Not for the last 71 years.

The earliest form of motoring tax was introduced under the Finance Act 1908, which levied a tax of 3d (one new pence) on a gallon of petrol from 1st April 1909. This was then followed by the Finance Act 1909-10, which introduced a tax based on the horsepower of the vehicle. It was stated at the time that revenue from this tax would be paid into a Road Fund, which was to be used for road improvements and this would pay up to half of the cost of some new roads. In 1910 a Road Fund Licence was introduced, which was charged at £2-10 for vehicles up to 6.5hp and £42 for 60hp. A Road Board was set up to administer the Road Fund and grants paid to local authorities and it was stated that the revenue would be used for road improvements only. In 1918 the Road Board was disbanded and its functions were taken over by the newly formed Ministry of Transport. The Finance Act 1921 replaced Road Fund Licences with Car Tax which was set at £1 per hp. The Road Fund continued until 1936, when Winston Churchill, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, abolished it and so brought to an end to hypothecated road taxation in Britain.