Pengalanty presented the following explanation : > > --- 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~ > > > > > ------------------------------------
I have said it before and I'll say it again. It is impossible to work out an accurate split. Your engine uses varying amounts of fuel depending on speed, engine temperature, locks, wind, air temperature, water temperature. The none propulsion again is variable battery charging while moving, stationary, waiting for a lock is a continues variable, even the state of charge of the batteries, lower charge more efficient charging, high charge state, low efficiency charging. And at the the day you can't prove any of the figures anyway. They would only have your word for it. -- Brian traveling on Harnser http://nbharnser.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
