FUEL responsibility is ready to be hiked by almost 1 / 4 subsequent yr if Jeremy Hunt ditches the present 5p lower.
A watch-watering 12p may very well be whacked on the value of petrol and diesel from March after the scheduled one yr lower involves an finish.
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A “document money improve” on drivers is coming down the monitor inside months – until ministers change course earlier than the March Price range.
It might be the primary time the Treasury whacked hard-up drivers with a rise in gas responsibility since 2011 – after The Solar’s 12-year-long Hold It Down marketing campaign.
Final evening MPs begged the Chancellor to not clobber motorists already dealing with hovering prices but once more.
Tory MP Jonathan Gullis raged: “This sneaky try and punish motorists of their pockets, is morally unsuitable.
“The Chancellor must take heed to drivers who’re already being smacked exhausting with cripplingly excessive taxation, and show to them we’ve their backs by maintaining the value on the pump down.”
And Craig Mackinlay blasted: “It might be past ridiculous to provide a beneficiant carry to advantages and pensions merely to take it away in an inflation-busting gas responsibility rise.”
Howard Cox, Founding father of FairFuelUK stated: “It might be the economics of the asylum if this ill-informed Authorities whacked extra filling up prices in 2023, onto one of many world’s already highest taxed drivers.”
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