Fewer than 100 have their say on gas guzzler tax
Tuesday 2nd February 2010, 11:30AM GMT.
THE Environment Department has had fewer than 100 responses to a consultation document about taxing vehicles based on their CO2 emissions.
Environment is looking at ways to discourage car owners from buying and using vehicles that produce high levels of emissions.
Five options were included in the consultation document, but Environment is insisting there are no firm policies at the moment.
‘The department undertook this exercise from a position of complete neutrality,’ said a spokesman.
‘There were no preconceived opinions and there is no hidden revenue-raising agenda.’
The possible options outlined in the document include an extra tax on fuel of 50p a litre and a flat £2,000 first-registration charge on new cars that generate high levels of carbon dioxide.
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I read the document and came to the conclusion that it is just another way to raise tax. If they really wanted to stop the use of gas gusslers just make them illegal.
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It’s not just local apathy that only 100 replied, it’s a simple realisation that whatever public opinion, the agenda and hikes are already set!
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The paper seemed to confirm that taxes will rise… and frankly asking the public if they want to pay more to use their cars is pointless. I dont want to pay 50 pence more a litre for fuel or pay road tax that was abolished in favour of a fairer, use more, pay more system…
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50p on a litre of fuel???? Have these morons just consumed the last of the legal highs left in Guernsey?????
Have they bothered to think of the impact of such a stupid increase? I imagine it would put the majority of taxi’s out of business for starters.
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Not through lack of trying i can assure you but i couldnt find the page to comment on this in the www gg gov thing or whatever ,so here it is 1. i dont believe its not a tax gathering exersize 2. i dont believe anything the states say any more 3. the benchmark of 120g/k is stupidly low and means that most vehicles other than prams will get hit , it will be a horrendous attack on inflation for obvious reasons (unknown to the states apparently)and it will be VERY interesting to see what happens to the buses who already, and indirectly have their fuel paid by us ,environment go back to sleep !! the place is bad enough already
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I am one of the ‘fewer than 100′, and along with arapho, I had awful trouble finding the consultation document on the website, but I got there eventually.
Yes it would seem to be a tax raising exercise, with the carrot of offering subsidies to those who are able to go about their daily business driving a vehicle the size of a shoebox.
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