Road tax ‘fiction’

ROAD tax is now based on CO2 emissions, so it obviously must be wrong to tax vehicles at a lower rate just because they are classed as “commercial”.

It is impossible to use legal enforcement to differentiate between private and work use. What happens if you want to stop off to buy something on the way to a job?

Business users can reclaim VAT on fuel, vehicle purchase and overheads, and their vehicle costs are deductible for income tax purposes.

Councils spend twice as much on roads as they receive in motor tax and could do with the extra revenue. Motorists are far too heavily subsidised and this loophole needs to be closed.

Michael Job

Rossnagrena

Glengarriff

Co Cork