The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) busts the myths that a fuel duty stabiliser is too complicated and expensive to put in place, in a new report published today. Critics have said that putting a ...

At the time of the October 2000 fuel protests, I proposed introducing a price-stabilising fuel duty – so that instead of fuel duty rising every year, the level should vary as oil prices varied, for ...

FIRMS will have to lay off staff, freeze wages and cut investment if fuel duty prices continue to increase, a leading business group is warning. FIRMS will have to lay off staff, freeze wages and cut ...

This is the tax the government imposes on fuel each year, which generates tens of billions for the Treasury. Roughly 60% of the price we pay at the pumps is tax, or 59p in duty on unleaded, plus 20% ...

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, the Mayor of London became the most senior Tory to date to demand a cut in motoring taxes. “If I were the government, I would think seriously about that fuel duty ...

Looking at petrol pricing, Eleanor Besley asks what has happened to the Conservatives' pre-election promise of a fair fuel stabiliser. The publication last week of RAC’s annual Cost of Motoring (CoM) ...

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has said that bringing in policies to help reduce the cost of petrol and diesel is still under consideration, but he isn't giving any indication ...

The government does not receive a “windfall” from higher petrol prices. By George Eaton There’s a notable interview with Robert Chote, the head of the Office for Budget Responsibility, in today’s ...

The more you look at this “stabiliser” the more it seems like a rather distant relation of the “fair fuel stabiliser” neatly worked out by George Osborne’s father in law, Lord Howell. The government ...

In one of the surprise moves of the Budget, George Osborne announced that fuel duty would be cut by 1p a litre from 6pm tonight. He will also delay the planned rise on April 1, which would have added ...

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is calling on the prime minister to fulfil a Conservative manifesto pledge to limit fuel duty increases. Should there be a limit? Petrol prices are now at a ...