UK households are paying hundreds of pounds more in " green taxes " than is justified by the environmental cost of their carbon emissions. A study by the TaxPayers Alliance has calculated that every household in the UK is paying almost £800 a year more in green taxes than necessary.
The study focused on a number of so called " green " taxes fuel duty, Vehicle Excise Duty [car tax] and landfill tax paid by council tax payers. The Government took a net £24.2 billion from those taxes, after the cost of maintaining roads is deducted, yet Britain's emissions in 2007 only did £4.6 billion worth of damage to the environment.
The Government is using green taxes as a cover for revenue-raising measures, in legal terms this would appear to be a case of misappropriation of monies, individual citizens have often been jailed for this. But this despicable Government is well versed when it comes to " double standards "
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