I find this all very confusing when trying to work out exactly what rates of duty I am paying when I buy red diesel....
Over the winter I was buying 'red' from a local garage - and paying under 70p a litre for it. The other day I bought fuel at Willowtree and 96.53 litres came to a (not so) grand total of £92.66. OK, I do appreciate that they needed to make a profit on their nominal £0.71p per litre, also that their turnover is not going to be a great as a garage with good passing trade - but on an 80/20 split the additional duty came to another 22% over what I had previously been paying (and there was still that extra 5% of VAT added on top which I've not included...) I'm not saying that I've been *done* (although I might have been .. ignorance is occasionally a blessing .. lol ..!), just that I don't understand how it is all worked out :-( Please - can somebody put me out of my misery? Trevor - On his way to face the knife - or, in this case, needles followed by some form of Laser :-( nb Nervous [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
