Motoring enthusiasts welcome
fuel-duty freeze
Motoring enthusiasts who have faced large increases
in fuel prices this year were given some respite today
when the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown
announced in Parliament that he had chosen to freeze
fuel duty in his Pre-Budget Report (PBR). However
he announced an inflation rise by saying "And
while I will go ahead with an inflation rise in fuel
duty from midnight tonight, of 1.25 pence per litre,
I will not restore the fuel duty escalator and I have
rejected a real terms increase in fuel duty".
No increases in the rates of vehicle excise duty (road
tax) were announced in the PBR, so the modest rate
increases affecting classic MGs announced in his Budget
2006 earlier this year remain. (6.12.06)
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