"RichardS" > wrote in message
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> Stunning, isn't it - the concept of VAT on Duty!!!
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> I still scratch my head as to how they get away with that one... actually
> no, I suppose that any discussion of tax other than headline rate income
> tax
> is something that makes about 90% of the country glaze over & ignore.

Which is entirely the point. They know that everyone thinking of 'tax' as
being income tax, so they dare not touch that. Instead they make us pay tax
in other ways. Mostly grossly unfair ways like fuel tax.