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👍 Two significant structural changes

1. Road-user charging principle accepted, #PerMile for EVs (FVs pay #FuelDuty)
2. Fuel duty inflation-link to restart after previous govt's freeze [EV charge also inflation-linked]

🤔 We'd have also liked..
1. #SUV charging
2. Tax/vat on #AviationFuel
Transform Scotland budget response... Transform Scotland‬ ‪@transform.scot‬ · 41m 🚗 UK Budget Response from Transform Scotland Transform Scotland spokesperson, Emilia Lauder, welcomes the Chancellor’s baby steps toward fairer motoring taxes. The new mileage-based charge for EVs and long-overdue changes to fuel duty finally move us closer to a 'polluter pays' system. ‪Transform Scotland‬ ‪@transform.scot‬ · 41m Replied to Transform Scotland But, Emilia says the Chancellor missed a major opportunity. SUVs - the UK’s heaviest, most polluting vehicles - remain untouched by tax reform. A Large Vehicle Levy could raise nearly £2bn a year to reinvest in public transport and address the damage these vehicles cause. Campaign for Better Transport response... Welcomes fuel duty inflation-link and rail fare freeze but wants tax on aviation fuel Road.cc welcomes Cycle to Work scheme will continue unchanged No change to Cycle to Work Scheme in Budget, Treasury confirms — despite reports spending cap would be introduced Reports hinted a spending cap would be re-introduced to the tax-relief scheme, but Cycle to Work Alliance "happy to confirm no changes" to scheme... by Callum Devereux UPDATED Wed, Nov 26, 2025 15:38 2 The Cycle to Work scheme has been left unaffected by the Chancellor's Budget despite reports suggesting a spending cap would be introduced, as confirmed by a Treasury spokesperson in an email to road.cc. Government sources had briefed the Financial Times leading up to the announcement that there would be a clampdown on “tax breaks for high earners riding £4,000 e-bikes in the Surrey Hills”. But no mention of the scheme was made in either the chancellor's speech, or the report from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), a Treasury-funded fiscal watchdog that leaked details of the Budget before Reeves made her announcement. It later apologised and said the report was released early due to "a technical error".
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
aftermoles.bsky.social
Shower thought of this morning:

Thank goodness with all the other wackiness in imperial measurements, they at least left the concept of percent (root meaning "thru hundred") metric instead of turning it into like "permile" or some shit
October 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM