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Fuel duty increases from 01 April

The price of diesel increases on 01 April thanks to an increase in fuel duty – a VAT inclusive 2.12p per litre.
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31 March 2009

The price of fuel is increasing.

The Chancellor announced the latest 1.84p rise in the price of fuel duty in the Pre-Budget Report last year.

The rise will affect both petrol and diesel prices. The total VAT-inclusive rise is 2.12p per litre.

The AA calculates the rise will add an average £27 a year in tax on car fuels bills.

However, from 1 April 2010, following VAT’s return to 17.5% and an inflation + 0.5p fuel duty rise this time next year, a further 4p a litre is likely to be added to the cost of petrol and diesel, advises the AA.

“This and other fuel tax increases will severely dent consumer spending and undermine the UK’s economic recovery,” commented Edmund King, the AA’s President.

Fuel duty rises announced in the Pre-Budget Report

  • 01 April 2009 1.84p per litre (2.12p + VAT @15%)
  • 01 April 2010 0.5p per litre (0.59p + [email protected]%)

Further information


For comment on the fuel duty rise, read the Editor’s Blog Fuel duty rise from midnight tonight
Fuel duty rises 1.84p from midnight

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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