road fund licence

Have you got a road fund licence for your canoe?

The British road fund licence is much greater and fuel tax exceeds that of other countries.

That is why the road fund licence, which taxes ownership rather than use, has been increased more rapidly after a period of stagnation.

Other possibilities include the levying of road fund licence charges according to postcodes.

All caravans will be subject to a £250.00 Road Fund licence duty.

Motorists pay road fund licence because their infernal combustion engines stink out the air.

"those who do use motorised transport, who are obliged to pay the road fund licence fee"

Seriously, let's put all this and road fund licence on petrol tax - then the more you drive the more you pay.

The agency issues driving licences, organises collection of vehicle excise duty (also known as road tax and road fund licence) and sells private number plates.

The background pattern text was revised to read "Mechanically propelled vehicle licence", instead of "Road Fund Licence".

For instance, road fund licence charges and petrol prices tend to creep up gradually, whereas decisions in the sphere of public transport can effect substantial changes almost immediately.

FEW motorists should have been surprised by the rise in fuel duties and road fund licence in Tuesday's Budget, writes Jim Dunn.

The Road Fund Licence (later renamed as Vehicle Excise Duty) was introduced in 1921 and improve roads which had suffered as a consequence of the Great War.

Yet if the cost of the road fund licence soared to a level sufficient to become a significant tax on ownership, it would hit low-paid country dwellers hardest and hurt those whom it was supposed to help.

Rebates from the standard road fund licence would favour country dwellers, who generally have abundant parking, while the full rate would penalise those in larger cities who do not have off-street parking.

CPI has risen by a smaller amount over the past two years than RPI, and doesn't contain certain costs included in the latter, such as council tax, mortgage interest, house depreciation, TV and road fund licences.

Your Road Fund Licence and insurance will have to be renewed and getting these organised may well take a week or two, especially if your car is over three years old and your MoT certificate lapsed during your absence.

Supporters argue that it would involve no more than one extra piece of paper being produced alongside insurance and roadworthiness certificates, when the road fund licence is bought - while there remains the more radical possibility of issuing the number plate annually consequent on the tax being paid.

In 1936 British finance minister Neville Chamberlain abolished (as it turned out, only temporarily) the "road fund licence", an annual car tax which had not been applied to three-wheelers and which had therefore conferred a major competitive advantage on Reliant's "three-wheeled motor goods vehicle".

It also recommended that the cost of road fund licences be reduced for those vehicles which meet new stricter limits on emissions about to be agreed by the European Community, and that excise duty levied on diesel fuels be cut for those which meet EC standards.