Bruce Napier formulated on Friday : > On 16 Oct 2009, at 09:30, Steve Haywood wrote: > >> With respect, I don't think people have got this yet. Unless there >> is any >> suggestion of widescale organised fraud there will be no challenge. >> The government is not interested in this tax. The government has >> already >> announced to Europe that this tax is too expensive to collect which >> means it >> it is too expensive to police as well. >> >> Consider the following: 1. the government has provided no standard >> forms for >> boatyards to record details they are asked to keep 2. Boatyards, >> amazingly, have as yet not been informed of any procedure to collect >> revenue >> from this tax. When did you last hear that of a government? That it >> had >> made no arrangements for collecting revenue? >> >> They are not interested in this tax. They do not want to enforce it. >> They >> are at last learning to do what the French do with regard to these >> matters >> which is to pay lip service to the principle and go their own way in >> practice. For this I applaud them. >> >> You're all being too English about this and is costing you dear. > > > I agree with all of that. We pay very little extra as a result of > knowing how much fuel we use for which purposes. I don't seriously > expect a challenge for the reasons you give, but just because you're > paranoid, it doesn't mean they are not out to get you... > > I'm amazed at the number of folk who cough up on a 60/40 split > "because it's easier", though for many of those their fuel bill will > be quite low in total, so the extra tax they are paying is nugatory. I normally declare 50 50 as I don't have gas and use a diesel cooker. I actually think this is about the right split. Can you imagine the problem of checking up on a true CCer. Collecting all those declarations from all over the system from all the diesel suppliers, sorting through them all to filter out all the ones for one particular boater, putting them all together and then seeing if the proportions were unreasonable.
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