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Heavy goods vehicles alone pay enough tax to cover almost the whole of UK spending on road maintenance, research by the Freight Transport Association has revealed ahead of the budget on 22nd November. The report, prepared for FTA by RepGraph, shows that lorries pay three times more in tax than the estimated cost of damage they do to the road infrastructure – and in fact they pay 94 per cent of the UK’s total spending on road maintenance.
Between 2015 and 2016, central and devolved governments and local authorities spent some £4.7 billion on road maintenance. HGV taxes (vehicle excise duty, road user levy and fuel duty) raised in the same period £4.4 billion.
The cost estimate for infrastructure damage imposed by HGVs totalled only £1.5bn.
The total tax take from motor vehicles was £33.5 billion – more than seven times as high as the road maintenance budget. Read more
Source: LOGISTICS MANAGER
