Sentences with phrase «fuel duty escalator»

One part of the United Kingdom's environmental tax reform involved a steadily increasing fuel tax known as a fuel duty escalator, which was in effect from 1993 until 1999.

Smith attacked Labour, for having «had no plans whatever to support motorists», citing their introduction of a fuel duty escalator.

The report is expected to cause a furore among environmental groups, which supported the fuel duty escalator as a way to limit the greenhouse gas emissions from car use.

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.

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.

George Osborne had already cancelled rises due under the fuel duty escalator — a commitment to successive duty increases — put in place by the previous government.

It sounds like code for «we will bring back the fuel duty escalator» for a start.

Aviation tax rises were dropped despite the fact that aviation is historically under - taxed compared to road fuels and, whilst the road fuel duty escalator was scrapped, there was no help for bus and train users suffering much greater cost increases.

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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.

It insists that fuel would be 10p a litre more expensive now under plans for a duty «escalator» drawn up by the previous government, which scheduled annual inflation - plus - 1 % rises until 2014.

Osborne says he inherited an escalator, but the coalition did not immediately say that it would cut fuel duty — its words about putting more of the tax burden on to pollutants suggested the reverse.

They opposed the Government's fuel - duty escalator and said that the Climate Change Levy - a business tax on energy use that would be offset by cuts in corporate National Insurance contributions - «played Russian roulette with employment».