Talk:Hydrocarbon Oil Duty

Fuel escalator
It would be nice to have some mention on Wikipedia of something I think to be of enormous importance --- the way the Blair government caved in to intimidation and scrapped the fuel escalator in 2000. The only comparable attempt to influence govt policy in recent history is the Miners' Strike. Omicron18 14:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


 * OK -- UK fuel protest. There should be links.  The talk page asks for an article on the fuel escalator. unsigned

GB£?
What is "GB£" ? As far as I know, our currency here in the UK is called 'Sterling' and the symbol for it is "£". Since when did someone decide to rename our currency without asking us if we wanted it renamed? As an Englishman I find that insulting, so I have changed the incorrect "GB£" to "£". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.207.51 (talk) 19:56, 10 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Since the introduction of ISO 4217 in 1978 it has been known as GBP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217). Where have you been?!Yevad (talk) 14:44, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

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Substituted at 18:34, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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Source on the 1908 finance act and it introduction of a Fuel Duty
Whilst researching this topic I scoured the 1908 Finance act and the only changes I found to duties were stamp duties, sugar, tobacco, and a few others, but not explicitly fuel. In the "Finance (1909-10) Act 1910" I did find explicit tax of fuel here at "Threepence" per gallon (section 84, part (2)). The two references at the end of the sentence stating 1908 as the starting point cite two sources: one concerning the current value of the tax, and the other a politics.co.uk page on "fuel duties". This page does state the 1908 finance act as the beginning of the fuel duty. However, this page in itself does not cite this with a link. Thus I presume the official "Finance Act 1908" would be the source. The original Finance Act 1908 does not include this fuel duty. However, the 1910 act does.

Here I see one of two possibilities: It was a 1908 act that introduced a fuel duty (of which I currently cannot locate) or it was instead in 1909/10 instead in which there is concrete legislation. Furthermore, with the "Finance Acts" being available for the public to view: would the original first hand source, with the option to view changes throughout the years and its original presentation, be the best source to cite this information.

In short: the "Finance Act 1908" does not include a fuel duty. The "Finance (1909-10) Act 1910" does. This is of "threepence" per gallon, not 3D. No original source is given for the 1908 claim, but I can provide evidence of 1910 being the proper introductory date. Either the act is incorrectly named or cited, or the cited source (politics.co.uk) is incorrect and 2010 was the true origins.

Thank-you for taking the time to read this. I will do further research into acts around this time. However, the "Finance Act 1908" does not include a fuel duty, and thus the page, as it stands, is incorrect in reference to the origin of UK fuel Duty. 01:45, 16 January 2020 (UTC)JMReddan (talk)