--- In [email protected], Brian on Harnser <br...@...> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > Brian traveling on Harnser > http://nbharnser.blogspot.com/
Hi Brian, I prepared a spread shet for my diesel usage based on the Engine Hours. These days I am a CC & 100% livaboard. I started my spread sheet well over a year ago and my "Split" works out 5% cruising and 95% domestic. This seems quite a usual percentage accorind to my Mobile Diesel supplier. I doubt if the diesel split and usage will ever be checked out as it would cost far too much to do this, probably more than anything that could b e recouped by the "Fiddler". I thought you might be interested to know how my fuel ACTUALLY works out. I have all the data to back this up too! ~Allan~
