Jul 22, 2016 10:51:51 GMT VIP said:
The 46.567 billion litres is duty paid petrol and DERV only.
You're still going to get umbridge from the person having to be taxed extra to fill up his - for example - John Deere ride-on mower. Putting VED on fuel is not a fair or practical replacement system.
As there has been no means of getting rebated petrol since the mid 50s or getting any refund of duty on petrol for agricultural/ off road use it will make very little difference to anybody with petrol equipment as the quantities are relatively small. Red rebated diesel is available for legitimate users and agricultural vehicles are in the zero tax bracket anyway
Now we've waved good riddance to the Euro bus we might have a chance to keep rebated fuels for off highway uses.