Chancellor George Osborne has announced that fuel task will be frozen until 2015 and that the UK will step to a paperless system for automobile excise task in his Autumn Statement.
The Chancellor had hinted that fuel task could be delayed a additionally two years back at the Tory conference in September, but only if the savings could be made elsewhere in buy to support this.
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Speaking during the autumn statement he claimed that the extra savings had been found and as a result the next rise, due in 2014, would be cancelled. He claimed that as a result of various cancellations and freezes of fuel task by the coalition Government, motorists were paying 20p per litre less for petrol than they would have done under the labour Government.
The autumn statement also detailed plans for the UK to step to a paperless car tax system. instead automobile excise task will step to an electronic system, with a paper car tax disc no longer needed to be visible.
The new system will allow motorists to pay the charge by monthly direct debit, and will be introduced in October 2014. Motorists can currently pay in six or 12 months instalments. The new monthly option is expected to cost five per cent a lot more than paying the full year in one go. motorists who don’t have the Internet will be able to pay directly at the post office of over the phone.
