On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:53 AM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 August 2012 10:25, Mark Wendt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yup. Nuckin' futs, isn't it? And it's a heck of a lot worse in >> Europe, tax wise per liter. > > A litre of petrol in the UK is about £1.35. > That includes VAT@20%, so the base price is £1.125 > Of that, £0.5795 is fuel duty. so, the base price is 54p a litre, and > we pay 81p tax on top. > > Of course, that is nowhere near the true value of the base material, > considering the production rate. > (I am not referring to the extraction rate) > > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto
Pardon me, but HOLY CRAP! VAT, fuel duty and a sales tax? That's just crazy. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
