Sentences with phrase «freezing fuel duty»

Yes, he was freezing fuel duty for the rest of the year!

The Government has done its work; cutting or freezing fuel duty for two years.

Increasing the personal allowance is popular (83 % say its a good idea), as is cracking down on international tax avoidance (81 %), freezing fuel duty (74 %) and the sugar tax (62 %).

The group's chief executive, Stephen Joseph, said: «Freezing fuel duty does nothing to help the millions who rely on public transport.

In freezing the fuel duty freeze, Osborne will be repeating his autumn statement from last year, raising calls by some for the total scrapping of the fuel duty escalator under which tax is supposed to increase by the retail price index (RPI) every April until 2014.

«Freezing fuel duty until the end of parliament will save drivers # 11 every time they fill up their tanks compared to what it would have cost under Labour.

And while doing these big, country - changing things, we are doing everything possible to help people who are struggling with the cost of living: helping to freeze council tax for three years in a row; freezing fuel duty; cutting the income tax bills of 24 million taxpayers; taking two million of the lowest paid out of tax altogether.

Freezing fuel duty.

«We understand that the impact of the great recession is still being felt and so we've moved to cut income tax for 26 million people, frozen fuel duty and frozen council tax.

The autumn statement froze fuel duty, raised personal tax allowances and banned lettings fees.

«Provided we can find the savings to pay for it, I want to freeze fuel duty for the rest of this parliament,» said Osborne to loud applause.

He would freeze fuel duty, a big deal for our readers, then slap a tax on takeaway grub.

Hammond admitted he was averting negative headlines by not bringing in wider moves on diesel and continuing to freeze fuel duty.

Not only has it frozen fuel duty in real terms, but also cut it by 1p in 2011.

So, too, will the decision to freeze fuel duty for the sixth successive year, though if ever there was a time to increase the tax surely it was now as pump prices have fallen so much.

The chancellor's speech at the Conservative party conference delivered a pledge to freeze fuel duties.

The coalition has frozen the fuel duty escalator on petrol and diesel that was brought in by the previous administration as a green tax during the 1990s.

Under questioning from Miliband in the Commons, Cameron said that the decision to freeze fuel duty was not a government U-turn since it was one of six increases in fuel duty left by Labour.

In the last autumn statement, he scrapped an increase he had already deferred until January and now it appears he may freeze fuel duty rises throughout this parliament.

The chancellor has frozen fuel duty again, cancelling a rise planned for September — although Treasury documents published alongside the budget reveal that the rise was only due to be 1.89 p, not the 3p that was widely anticipated.

Not exact matches

She proposed generous measures including a freeze on fuel duty — a trademark of Osborne's — as well as cuts to air passenger taxes, and further childcare subsidies.

Measures such as the higher personal allowance, the freeze in fuel duty, and abolition of the alcohol duty escalator will all ease the burden on hard - pressed families.

«The cut in beer tax, the freeze in fuel duty and the higher personal allowance will all ease the pressure on family budgets.

«Countrysiders and their businesses are penalised for their rural location, paying more to run a car, which is an essential not a luxury for them; this freeze in fuel duty will help to alleviate this pressure.»

With reports online that Tory MPs were still being told to brand Labour's demand for a fuel duty freeze «the worst kind of hypocrisy» at 12:30 BST yesterday, Ms Smith's inability to stick to a government line seems considerably more understandable.

Yhe personal allowance will rise and fuel duty be frozen.

The chancellor announced that fuel duty is to be frozen for the rest of this Parliament, if the savings can be found to pay for it.

Chancellor's freeze on fuel duty hailed a «victory for the hard - working classes of modern Britain»

Osborne's fuel duty commitment follows intense backbench pressure and is his riposte to the promise last week by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to freeze electricity prices for 20 months after the 2015 election.

That's why the actions we've taken — such as freezing the council tax, making cuts to fuel duty and raising the personal allowance so you keep more before you start paying tax — are so important.

People have found it hard to make ends meet» Cameron declared, before talking up the council and fuel duty freezes.

However, critics have asked how the persistent freezes in fuel duty fit with the government's deficit reduction priority — a question most famously posed by Jeremy Paxman to Treasury minister Chloe Smith on Newsnight after the duty U-turn in August.

They also had a Windfall Tax on Utilities and auctioned 3 - G licences, raided Pension Funds and played with Fuel Duty... taxes rose quite considerably... it was spending totals they froze causing real problems in the NHs etc which then exploded after 2001 rather like binge - dieting

Mr Osborne set out a number of policies for a future Tory government, including a freeze on fuel duty and a requirement for the long - term unemployed to work for their benefits.

As you know, I am strongly in favour of raising the personal allowance to # 10,000 and welcome what George Osborne has done so far to help with the cost of living, whether this is reducing fuel duty, or freezing Council Tax.

George Osborne's decision to halt August's planned fuel duty rise and freeze it for the rest of this year is an adroit retreat which will be greeted with relief by motorists - and, furthermore, has been played by the book, since he's just announced it in the Commons.

George Osborne diverts money from Britain's poorest families to pay for public building projects and a fuel duty freeze

Prime minister's questions was largely about the freezing of fuel duty, and about Chloe Smith, the demure 30 - year - old Norwich MP who is the most junior minister in the Treasury.

George Osborne is planning to freeze the planned fuel duty rise in his autumn statement, after coming under pressure from his backbenchers and receiving support from key Liberal Democrat colleagues.

Transport lobby groups are worried that, after six years of freezes, the time is ripe for the chancellor to grab some extra income from fuel duty.

The cash saved will be used to pay for a freeze on fuel duty to placate exasperated motorists; a cap on rail fare rises; and to help fund scores of infrastructure projects, from the Kettering bypass to a new bridge across the Thames.

George Osborne's decision to halt August's planned fuel duty rise and freeze it for the rest of this year is a panic climbdown which will be greeted with contempt by everyone - and, furthermore, is extremely badly timed, since Ed Balls called for it today.

«Drivers shouldn't be dancing in the streets or at the pumps due to a promised freeze in fuel duty,» said Edmund King, AA president.

On a day when he revealed the economy would take a # 60 billion hit over the coming five years thanks Brexit, Mr Hammond did have some positive news - namely that fuel duty would be frozen and the National Living Wage increased.

The political damage from George Osborne's U-turn on plans to increase fuel duty deepened on Tuesday night when he was accused of leaving one of his junior ministers to carry the can during an interview in which she struggled to explain how the freeze would be funded.

Dozens of Conservative MPs have said they will oppose any attempt to end the five - year freeze on fuel duty in the Budget.

The budget did include a straight up tax break for investment in North Sea oil, as well as a freeze on fuel duty increases.