Tamas,

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:13:33 +0100, Tamas Rudnai wrote:

> The bad thing with the VAT system is that not all your normal tax goes into
> the right place. For example when you pay road tax that money supposed to
> put into road developments, transportation safety devices etc. But the
> government pays VAT as well as other taxes just like you. So that if the VAT
> is 17.5% that amount of road tax instantly goes into the 'other packet' of
> the government. Other taxes are the similar so that the income tax that all
> road workers has to pay goes back into the another packet and so on. All
> together that's a huge amount of money and that's why the governent do not
> always do what they should have to.

Ah, but in Britain taxes are not collected for specific purposes (there's a name for this but I can't remember it - how do you gargoyle [tm] for 
something when you don't know its name?) and in particular the money collected from the "Tax Disc" and from fuel duty has never been allocated to 
transport - if it was we'd be in a vastly better situation than we are now!  Basically *all* the money from taxes goes into the treasury, where they 
sit on it until someone persuades them so spend some of it on something useful...

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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