The news that the Government is considering implementing a pay-per-mile road tax for heavy goods vehicles has led critics to believe that this is just a trial with the intention to roll it out to all motorists in the future, but this isn’t the case.
How would it work?
This new system would see tolls set up across Britain which charge drivers depending on how many miles they have driven and how high the emission level of their vehicle is in a bid to encourage people to use the roads efficiently.
In the document which has been released it states that this is not being considered with the aim of charging HGV drivers more money, but to encourage companies to think about how they are using the roads and to drive more economically with the hope that this will help to ease congestion.
In addition to this, it is also being seen as a fair way to charge both British and foreign HGVs as currently British drivers have been complaining about how foreign lorries are filled up for cheaper prices abroad and don’t contribute any money towards the maintenance of our roads despite driving many miles on them. This new system would mean that all HGVs are being charged the same depending on how economical their vehicle is and how many miles they are travelling.
This is because at the moment money is made from fuel duty which sees people paying 57.95p per litre of petrol or diesel, but if vehicles are being filled up elsewhere the Treasury is not getting this money from them which is why they are considering revising the current levy and trying something new instead.
The impact on vehicles
With the recent rise in the purchase of electric and hybrid cars, and a 31% decline in sales of diesel cars, it is unsurprising that the Government are looking for new ways to make money out of drivers which can be used to maintain the roads, as it will only be a matter of time before most people aren’t purchasing fuel at all so the £27.5 billion made from this per year is going to be significantly reduced.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan also backs a tax which hits those who are travelling in cars which emit high emissions, use the roads during the busiest times, and taking longer journeys as he would like to see less congestion on the roads as this will lead to cleaner air, especially in our larger cities. This is due to him wanting people to see driving as their last resort behind using public transport, walking, or cycling.
It is suggested that this system would be put in place using GPS style tracking satellites and automatic number plate recognition which would track mileage, and the emissions level of the vehicle being driven would also be taken into consideration with those that are less economical being charged more.
Implementing the system
So could HGVs be subjected to this new system simply to test it out for all road users? The Government insist that this is not the case and that this is being done because HGVs cause more wear and tear to the roads and release more emissions. However, with fuel duty predicted to decrease it does seem likely that a new way of raising money for road repairs, which cost approximately £120 million per year, would need to be found.
HGVs are already charged more to use the toll roads that are currently in place, paying £11 to use the M6 toll rather than the £5.90 that is costs a car for example, so this is not a new concept, but it could be that if a new levy which is brought in for them is successful that the Government wouldn’t look to roll it out to all road users.
What do you think about this new system being brought into place? Do you think it could be the future of paying road tax? Let us know in the comments below.
Appears to have some merit as far as HCVs are concerned but if rolled out on a wider basis could disproportionately affect rural dwellers who have few viable alternatives to car use.
What is this about, the roads are maintained by the general taxation,
vehicle tax is far in excess of what is spent on the roads which is the reason it goes in the general pot.
According to the government what we pay is a Vehicle tax not a road tax clever isn’t it
WRONG… not enough of the vehicle tax is spent on maintaining the roads. As little as possible is spent with the majority hived off to hand out as Overseas Aid to the likes of india that has a Space Program ! or stupid projects like HS2 to cut 1/2 an hour off a train journey..just how many overpaid executives will benefit from that, as darn few of the general public will.
Just another big brother squeeze. Remember your maths though: the answer to 1984 is 1776. Squeeze too hard and something goes pop.
This will be another back door tax increase to squeeze every motorist. It may sound good on paper but after a couple of yrs it will hit hard and the aim of getting people out of their cars on to a already overstretched, overpriced useless public transport.
I would hope Brexit would stop the foreign lorries, which come over here in droves, flout all our laws, litter our countryside’s and do it mostly for free. We must consider the UK haulage Industry is our main artery delivering our goods. Charge them more and your goods go up. It such a shame we cannot use the canals and railways to help reduce our pollution and congestion
WE DO USE THE RAILWAYS MORE THAN WE USED TO FOR MOVING GOODS AFTER THE DECLINE IN THE 50s &60S.
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL COULD BE USED MORE IF GOVERNING BODIES GOT OFF THEIR BACKSIDES AND REVISED THE RULES OF USAGE.
WE ALREADY HAVE A WEEKLY TRAIN TO AND FROM CHINA TO BARKING AND THE FRENCH HAVE SENT A HIGH SPEED MAIL TRAIN
AS WELL WITH THE GERMAN RAILWAYS HAVING SENT A HIGH SPEED PASSENGER TRAIN TO ST. PANCRAS.
THE PROBLEM IS LACK OF SPACE ON THE RAILWAY NETWORK FOR MORE TRAINS, A PROBLEM THAT COULD BE SOLVED IF THE GOVERNMENT PUT UP THE MONEY TO BUILD A SENSIBLY ROUTED HS2 WITH CONNECTION TO HS1!!!
agree… and some harbour illegal immigrants! UK is a pathetic soft touch to allcomers.
It is time the Government started charging all foreign vehicles entering via ports to use our roads. I have to pay SF40 for a year to drive in Switzerland I have to pay €9.50 to travel on Austrian roads for 10 days Frnech autoroutes are all apying. We should be charing visitors with their cars and lorries to use our roads. So easy you just buy a vignette on the ferry or at a petrol station. Works well on the continent. Should work here
I totally agree with Gordon. I have to pay minimum a months levy for crossing through Slovenia which only takes me a few hours. It work and pays for their roads upkeep. U.K. needs to implement it here then use the fund entirely “on the upkeep of the roads” to bring them up to a suitable standard.
All HGV’s over 12 tonnes have had to pay the Road User Levy upon entering the uk since April 2014.
https://www.multiservicetolls.com/wp-content/uploads/HGV-Levy-Bands-Rates-Tables-English-0114-Final.pdf
If you work shifts in most areas you cannot get public transport if you are a woman working shifts you do not feel safe on public transport even if available Tolled roads going back hundreds of years Going back to cars only being for the rich If they bring this in charging the HGV more to run food and everything moved by roar will cost more yet again affecting the poorest in the country Typical government people who earn a lot of money and therefore not affected by their own policies
Something needs to be done to ‘control’ foreign HGVs – many are still overloaded, do not adjust headlights, are not fitted with speed limiters and flout many other road safely laws. Creating large control areas at Dartford Crossing and the new crossing to inspect and validate the trucks would be a start.
How is fuel duty and VAT not a tax on mileage aswell as a sliding scale that you pay more the less miles per gallon your vehicle does?
Expedient politically to dub this a tax on higher polluters but higher polluters already pay much more
I think that the use of the ANPR system would lead to a significant rise in cloned number plates including the rogue foreign vehicles.
See no problem even if VED going yo be charged per mile, after all it is road tax… the more you use it the more you pay. What is the problem that almost none of those 28bn raised from fuel duties are spent on the road.. that is the problem indeed. The point is that government is not accountable to motorists .. not accountable to anyone. As such the problem is not overseas drivers… it is government – if they spend money collected from duties on the road we would not have this discussion – we would have best roads in the world and still have money to spare.
Ah but, Linas, you are missing the subtle nominal sleight of hand – it’s not called road tax officially – it’s called Vehicle Excise Duty and is therefore an absolute tax upon possessing a vehicle (although we do – how lucky we are – have the SORN option for zero-rate VED if a vehicle is off the road). There is no connection with maintaining the roads and HM government openly admit this. I totally agree that if more than 1% of VED revenue were spent upon maintaining facilities (ie the roads) for the subjects of that VED, we would have better roads That brings up the wider issue of the misnaming of UK taxes (eg everybody who pays NIC would naturally expect that NIC revenue pays for pensions and the NHS – NIC was introduced to fund pensions and the NHS after all – but that is not rhe case – NIC and Income Tax both go into the same big melting pot of general tax revenue and are indistinguishable in real terms; and never mind that the NHS alone costs vastly more than the revenue raised from NIC – the NHS is a major reason why we have 20% VAT, the biggest of tax revenue sources).
Well said!
I read a few years ago that in Japan they spent 110% of money raised by vehicle taxes actually on the roads, YES 10% on top of what they took in.
Brilliant idea, the furthest I drive is 6 miles to our kennels, so I would be quids in. But I do think foreign lorries should be made to pay to use our roads. Its very unfair at the moment.
Government has already made a huge error in doing away with paper VED discs which has cost them(us) millions of pounds. No matter what they do they always seem to get it wrong. Could be to do with people in positions for which they do not have a real inkling of what is going on To get money out of foreign drivers though would be a start. Noticeable though roads in places like Menorca are perfect with not a pothole to be seen!!
Foreign vehicles fill up in France with cheap fuel, drive on our roads for free, use the dartford toll without paying and drive back to the continent to refill. We pay the cost. They should have the same systems over here as there are on the continent where we have to pay to use their roads.
I totally agree, and don’t forget the parking and littering fines that don’t get paid!
Charge ALL hideous over large foreign lorries so that they revert to sensible size trucks
I had been driving heavies for lots of years and when I started 32 ton was the top limit for normal road trucks and carrying depending on the truck and trailer between 20 and 22 ton carrying capacity but these days the top weight limit being 44 ton and the carrying capacity is really much the same the extra weight has gone by more safety features like cycle guards to whole length, the trailers are 5 ft longer with no difference in the overall legal length, 2 extra axles with extra brakes, 8 tyres, bigger engines to maintain 56 mph up hill and down dale which annoys car drivers, when hills like shap used to be a first or second gear and take 20 minutes to climb now fully loaded they don’t drop a cog and this is progress road rage is all it causes
Why doesn’t the government actually use more of the money from road tax on the roads instead of siphoning off to other areas in the first place. Taxing foreign drivers will up the prices of incoming goods.
I agree all foreign vehicles, not just HGV’s, don’t forget all the foreign cars and coaches that crowd the roads in the summer, but the problem with charging more for people with older cars is a bit unfair, I drive an older car because even with the scrappage scheme I can’t afford a new one. It seem to me that Mayor Khan is trying to keep the streets of London for just the wealthy to use, (ant one seen The Hunger Games Films)? Yes there should be a pay per use scheme but it should be fair for everybody, I talked about this with friends years ago, if they stopped road fund licence and just added a small amount to the cost of fuel then a, there would be no tax dodgers, and b, it would be fair for those of us that only use our vehicles to go shopping and on holiday’s.
How would electric cars be taxed. If the tax was only on petrol and diesel?
The same as they are now.. NONE.. Its great No VED, Electric at 5p a kwh gives 4 miles driving, so just over 1p a mile to drive over 200 miles on a charge. No Congestion Charge or parking fees in central London, Why do you think the EV drivers are always smiling. We are thinking SUCKER as we drive alongside you in the traffic as you are burning your pay packet in your tank.
This not the answer if it was set up just how many “Jobs Worth” will be employed on excessive salaries.
Am I missing the point, if I use more fuel I either use the roads more or I have a vehicle with low efficiency, either way is this not the same as what the government is suggesting?
Additional charges could be applied to diesels. The government also needs to tighten the MOT’s on diesels to check partical emissions.
Greater benifits should be made to encourage greener vehicles.
Typical numpty…diesels are far more efficient than petrol. On long motorway journeys a 1.5 diesel can do in excess of 60+mpg, whereas a 1.5 petrol will be lucky to achieve 45mpg. The diesel is more efficient, and the newer diesels produce less harmful emissions. If you look into it, it was publicised recently that the demise of the diesels hax seen a rise in petrol vehicle sales with a 14% rise in CO2. And we all know that CO2which destroys the ozone layer and increases global warming.
With food banks on the rise due to poverty. This will only increase in the future, especially with such proposed schemes as this one. The question that needs to be asked is the current pricing for fuel correct as currently half or more is going in tax and then vat on top of that too (so you get taxed twice). Now compare this to other European countries. Also with Brexit being in limbo (dont see it happening) prices of food stuffs which are mostly imported from Europe etc will increase in price due to more taxation on fuel whether directly or indirectly through such schemes.
Someone let me know when those elected to government or in opposition start using electric cars or public transport en masse.
I think I’d favour a port of entry/exit license/tax/toll to begin with. Tolls are fine where you control all entries and exits such as the M6 Toll, however all you’ll do by putting tolls on motorway and trunk roads is to create lorry rat runs through narrow roads that aren’t built for them and can’t cope with them.
How would the charges be taken from foreign drivers? They ignore parking/speeding tickets as it is. Good idea if it can be done. But the London Mayor speaks only for London, he knows nothing about the rest of the country & rural areas where cars are the only option for transport.
This is the thin end of the wedge & can only be rolled out for all motorists in the future. At the moment the driver of an electric car pays no fuel duty & no road tax. The government are encouraging us all to have less polluting vehicles & so less money for them & road maintenance.So where will the money to build & maintain roads come from?
Its all part of the plan of the elite rich….only they can afford to buy new EV’s like the Tesla, and as a extra bonus to themselves, they don’t have to pay any Road Tax ! Owners of any EV should pay a mileage tax as their heavy battery laden cars wear out the roads quicker than similar sized but lighter petrol/diesel cars do.
Yes foreign lorries should be charged, but why waste money on tolls surely we have a date they enter and therefore as they leave England they are charged so much a day, leaving them either paying or taken off the road and not allowed to leave until payment is received.
As for anyone else we should scrap the tax and be charged a couple of pence a litre on our fuel and that way heavy uses pay more.
Also the government should be transparent and tell us the money they have collected and where it is going
I have kept on saying it myself. Scrap the tax, put it on fuel, the polluter pays!
BigAl=BIG IDIOT!!
This country called UNITED KINGDOM consists of more than England. They don’t just leave from England, it’s no wonder the snp, whom I detest, wants to break up the UNITED KINGDOM which consists of Scotland, England, Wales, Northen Ireland.
I am a UNITED KINGDOM citizen, born and bred,and I am proud to be both Scottish AND British. I think people like you, Treveor, should remember we are all the one country which doesn’t start with the letter E.
Tolls everywhere causing more delays ? Does no one think these days I know computers do not have any common sense but it seems it is not used by any part of HMG
Motorways to become toll roads. Local commuters and regular users buy a usage pass. Good example is the Florida turnpike.
Foreign lorries have to pay to use there own toll roads that are own by the banks not the countries involved, A few uk companies have foreign registered trucks in France Netherlands and Belgium to flout our own laws and most of our own trunks that work Europe and middle east have a last fuel stop in France or Luxembourg before coming home to save 30p+ a litre but after all that the foreigners don’t pay the Dartford toll now so how are you to effect them paying a road toll/mileage charge take there speedo readings leaving/entering the port wow what a queue that will cause
Just charge lorries .
Just charge lorries
Seem to me like another ill worked out government scheme to get extra money.
save money on paper tax disc?, disaster its costing millions in unpaid tax.
Get people driving diesel cars, they are much cleaner?, oops sorry no they aren’t big mistake lets tax the poor public who took our advice and bought them.
I can see the fuel tax remaining as it is at present so we motorists would be paying per mile and paying the fuel tax.. Anybody who thinks fuel prices will go down is living in a dream world. Another way to punish the motorist.
Years ago the government was thinking of putting the tax on fuel and doing away with road tax all together. So the more miles one drove the more you pay, Shell and BP stepped in and stopped it going ahead because they reckon they were not TAX collector’s. But they were already collecting taxes every time we put a gallon/litre in our tanks.To me this would be a benefit to us all.
I cant see how this would make more money. They would have to install toll booths & redo roads to accomadate tolls and pay people to collect them. Then the goods being transported would go up in price to pay for the extra cost of delivering these goods. So everyone is going to pay higher cost of what they buy. They should charge the foreign lorrys more to use our roads as they dont pay road tax here or buy much fuel.
Charles do you mean the government would have to spend some of its 27 BILLION pounds on building toll booths àaaaaaaaargh such tomfoolery! No, the only way to go is a fuel tax, but it won’t be cheap. As for foreign lorries using our roads, yes charge them but don’t forget, some of them are carrying Britain’s exports, hit them too hard and the cost of our exported goods goes up too
A 40-ton HGV causes one miiliion times as much damage to a road as a one-ton car. That is to say that you could drive a million cars along a stretch of road and cause as much wear & tear as from driving a single HGV on the same stretch. It is HGVs that cause the vast majority of road wear. Nevertheless, HGVs do not suffer a million times the rate of VED. This is for two reasons: 1. HGVs are the heartbeat of the economy so it would be perverse to price them off the roads; and 2. VED is not officially ‘road tax’, it is an absolute tax upon the possession of a vehicle and has no more connection to roads than to any other area of possible expenditure.
Also it is misguided to label the vast majority of EU-registered HGVs as ‘high polluting’ when the EU generally has a relatively young HGV fleet that is therefore substantially EU6-compliant, meaning not only do they employ diesel particle filters, but also Diesel Exhaust Fluid (32.5% urea solution – colloquially known by one particular brand name AdBlue) to reduce NOx emissions. Any pay-per-mile levy would at least have to be based upon EU6 compliance just to be fair. Furthermore, if you drive one 44-tonne HGV and 44 one-tonne cars in tandem, you will also find that the 44-tonne HGV uses less fuel (so causes less pollution) than those 44 cars combined (and that also applies in the case of electric vehicles where the pollution is caused in the generation of the electricity and the manufacture of their batteries).
As for potentially punishing diesel fuel usage, it was the government itself that incentivised diesel usage originally when it introduced CO2-based VED. Having been wrongfooted by the dratted ingenuity of motor engineers in producing cars that slip into low-or-zero VED bands, they threw the baby out with the bathwater by removing any incentive for the use of new low-CO2-emitting vehicles from 2017 onwards. We could therefore expect to see aggregate CO2 emissions starting to increase again as motorists are scared away from diesel by all the latest environmental propaganda… but the truth is that it still makes economic sense to use diesel as long as you do the mileage required to offset the initial cost premium and it absolutely makes environmental sense to use diesel in preference to petrol over any mileage, simply because diesel engines are more efficient and diesel is a higher-energy-density fuel. The issue then becomes pre-EU6-era diesel cars, which almost by definition are run by people who cannot afford to buy a brand-new vehicle, and/or who see the absolute economic and environmental sense of running a perfectly capable and well-maintained older car in preference to throwing away a huge amount of money on new-car depreciation and encouraging the pollution engendered by the manufacture of that new car.
I too totally agree,the foreign truck drivers polite more and use our roads for earning money for there country not ours,I think they’ve been getting away with it for far too long.
It’s about time road tax was abolished and an increase in duty applied. That way the more you drive the more you pay. However the foreign trucks should pay as they come into the country at £100.00 per week and their tanks must be as full when they leave as when they arrived.
Just dip their tanks and charge accordingly.
The more you drive the more you already pay. More miles means more fuel used therefore more tax.
We all know that vehicle road fund license and tax on fuel isn’t solely used on our UK road network. We need taxation to pay for services not just roads if we agree with how its raised or not! The new system sounds fairer than what we have at present but would all depend on how it is implemented as always the devil is in the detail! It would be nice to see ALL LGVs pay their fair share based on mileage and hence damage done to roads (and pollution) public transport could be exempt to encourage expansion and improvement to a usable level which we haven’t got at present. Expanding the pay pet mile to ALL vehicles starting starting with commercial goods vehicles would have to happen. The reasoning to what I have stated is because if we carry out government proposals we won’t have new petrol or diesel vehicles after 2040 so NO FUEL TAX revenue. If we have almost only all electric by then with some hybrids NO ROAD FUND TAX either electric are exempt. If the above becomes the case how as a country are we going to fund the gap? Taxes will need to come from somewhere electric cars still cause wear and tear to roads so will need to pay their share too. In the long term we will have no choice but to either pay direct road tolls or pay per mile! Pay per mile has always been the fairer way to go its just a matter of how we go about it in a fair practical way!
At present adding tax to fuel would encourage people to use their vehicles less or more efficiently and be very cost effective as is paid direct to the exchequer by petrol companies.
When we reduce our use of fuel and do less mileage we would have to rely on a toll system instead. No tax payer would agree to paying higher income tax to bridge the funding tax gap so psy per mile is the way to go in the end. This would all need to be in place well in advance of 2040 to prevent loss of revenue so likely to need phasing in within 10 years onwards.
Just think how much money the government would gain if duty is on fuel. No dodging, no guys driving around looking for untaxed. The police would not have to look for untaxed cars either so they can concentrate or real offences.
Sounds good, but the Police would instead be driving round constantly on the lookout for rogues syphoning fuel tanks/lines even puncturing fuel tanks rather than buying fuel….it already happens…this would just escalate it and create a black market for stolen fuel.
For Brits it should be simple and cheap to administrate and the fairest and obvious solution is to abolish road tax and just put all the tax on the fuel then it is prorata, fair and reduces unnecessary expensive admin and overheads.
Foreign vehicles should pay just like anyone else similar to paying a toll like the M6, Dartford crossing and like some systems abroad etc.
An Excellent idea. Why should we pay for HGV from foreign countries benefit from their own fuel prices
I would not trust this government to start with a low charge pay-ler-mile road tax for your car then after a few years start to bump up the price every year. Just like they have an annual escalator for present ved and mot. This government is not to be trusted.
This government is corrupt and looks after it’s own! I wouldnt trust them as far as i could throw them! Tip of a very large iceberg!
Nor any other!
Here we go again…hit the motorist in the pocket, cash cows thats all the
government see us as! The sensible thing to do has already been said….charge the foreign road users like they do to us. Sadly there
is where we hit the buffers…..with all the degrees, diplomas and every
other qualification one needs to be in government….there is not one
person with the brains or the guts to roll out such a programme, just
in case we upset our neighbours!!!
Just as bad is the Health Service…..paid for by us….FREE to the rest
of the blasted world!
Well said!
It is a just a tax hike as per. They re branded road tax as they wasn’t using the taxing for road repairs, and if they were a pot hole must be £1bn each. The profit for maintenance is to sit in their pockets.
Ok electric cars save from fuel tax so why should fuel cars pay both? Maybe charge EV per mile instead.
Cars that use more fuel and higher emmisions pay more tax as greater consumption plus higher road fund licence, so it’s them keeping a great portion of the pot topped up let alone paying premium per mile.(gov.uk bonus scheme)
All this is is not a push to go green but a push to have a reason to charge per mile only as now with elec / hybrid vehicles they are loosing out.
We all are told to save the planet or eat healthy but they charge us more for the privelage, or waste good produce because it’s “wonky”.
Yes I agree with the fact non UK vehicles do get away with not paying their way an littering our country side and am constantly horrified abroad to see that although Switzerland and Germany city’s are the cleanest around, I endlessly see those nationals at a barrier reefs and beauty spots throw bottle and crisp packets into the sea / land. So they look after no.1 and so should we.
If the UK want to charge per mile then it’s simple in my view. Do away with fuel duty to the government and road fund licence entirely. The roads don’t benefit from repairs as it is. Can’t have it all ways.
Remember not so long ago we were all told to buy diesles? And recycle more? Now we are encouraged to scrap in our cars for cash and have them derstroyed…. seems ilogical to me.
This is a thoroughly good scheme which ought to be widely welcomed. If it’s a trial using HGVs before rolling it out for all vehicles – great. Putting all road tax onto fuel means that that it cannot be evaded and those vehicles that use less fuel (so less polluting) pay less. It also means that all non-UK registered vehicles pay their share too – even better.
One qualification for remote against busy areas – parts of Scotland and Wales in particular – is that it would be fairer to have a lower cost per mile there and a correspondingly higher charge in the central parts of congested cities.
What’s not to like?
Apart, of course from petrol heads who insist on using cars in city centres andlorry firms that might not be subsidised so much by the rest of us.
Bring it on!
As long as this is applied to all foreign registered wagons that use our roads as currently they are not charged anything.
So every single item that lands on a shop shelf is going to cost more, trucks are the lifeline of our country, so if the truck owners refuse to pay the new fees guess what, we all going to go hungry.
Personally I am heartily sick of that man Sadiq Khan having so much say in anything that is outside London and beyond what he was voted into! He is the Mayor of London, NOT Britain.
For once you are right Al, hes a total 5hithead
Haulage companies will go to the wall if this is introduced and make thousands of people redundant.Typical Tories same with Brexit they will push it through and they will be able to bring in their own laws.It will be just like a dictatorship.
If the government IS that worried about the pollution and wear and tear on the roads replace all the railways that were ripped up in the 50/60’s. I remember reading an article that said there no village/town more than 15 miles away from a railway in England (and possibly Wales). If goods went that way you would only need light vehicles to complete the local journeys.
Well said, Brian! One key point so far missed by all the correspondence on this subject, is that railways have to pay by mileage via track access charges. So, it would create a much fairer level playing field if road freight companies were to pay similarly according to usage. Any extra revenue obtained should be used for the benefit of our transportation systems in general, and certainly some of this should be used to upgrade our railways to allow greater and more economical use by railfreight. The key objective in all of this, without a doubt, should be to reduce traffic on our overly-congested and overly-polluted roads, and onto more sustainable means, such as railways.
What about disabled drivers who get free road tax on mobility vehicles? Would they get a discount on the road pricing?
In France you have to fill in a tax form every year by law, no argument. If you work there is provision for claiming a mileage allowance so in this country disabled drivers could reclaim the money they’ve paid as a rebate. No doubt they would cry ‘discrimination’ and the government would say ‘too costly’