Every driver milked for £300-a-year as fuel tax is not NOT spent on our roads

Every driver is being milked for almost £300 a year in taxes that are not invested in our roads, a report shows.

Fuel duty and road tax raise £31.5billion annually but only £13.4billion of this is reinvested in roads or in environmental measures.

That means drivers are effectively handing over £18.1billion too much – or £293 a head.
The excess taxes vary by region because of unequal spending on roads, according to the research by the TaxPayers’ Alliance.   More Read