| Dear FairFuelUK Supporter, Our battle to see off the August 3p per litre (16p a gallon) rise in petrol/diesel tax that was just waved through in the Budget has started! We received great coverage in The Sun (read by 7.5m) about our damming initial survey findings – you can see it here...
Over the coming weeks we’ll be asking you to help by contacting your own MP. But right now, we are asking you for some very simple help. The FairFuelUK community now numbers over 251,000 concerned citizens and business owners across the country – but to make an even bigger impact in the minds of our MPs we need even more people behind us. We can’t afford to use press and TV advertising to reach new people, so that’s why we are asking for your help.
The sign up page link to back the campaign is at www.fairfueluk.com
We know that sometimes people feel a little awkward about passing on requests such as this. However, we know from experience that anyone who cares about the cost of petrol & diesel almost always welcomes finding out about FairFuelUK. If we can drive our community up towards 500,000 supporters in advance of all the campaigning and lobbying we are doing in the next few weeks in Parliament we will have an even greater chance of seeing off that 16p a gallon tax hike.
As ever, thanks so much for your support………
Kind regards,
Quentin Willson, Peter Carroll, Lynne Beaumont and Howard Cox Please take part in the biggest on-line survey on petrol and diesel pricing opinion that has ever taken placeThe FairFuelUK Survey closes 11th May - 30,000 have completed it so far
The FairFuelUK campaign is backed by the RAC, the Road Haulage Association RHA, the Freight Transport Association FTA and the country's leading fuel card specialists the Fuelcard Company . It is supported by over 250,000 members of the public and over 150 Parliamentarians.
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Quentin Willson's FairFuelUK Blog
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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ADD YOUR OWN COMMENTS BELOW THIS POST. THEY ARE VERY WELCOME
[ posted by Jim King, May 09, 2012 18:41 ]
I made a little excel spresdsheet.
its quite simple all you do is enter the amount fuel cost when you last visited the forecourt, and how much you spent.
the sheet then tells you How many litres you bought, How much the fuel was & how much tax you paid. The Tax is further broken down to VAT on the fuel, Fuel duty and VAT on the fuel duty.
I cant figure an easy way to share it though. Its a handy thing for anyone really, especially to raise awareness. Any advise on how to share my work of art would be much appreciated.
[ posted by Jim King, May 09, 2012 19:43 ]
Or i could tell you how to make your very own.
simply when i give a ref no its the cell, and in speech marks what to type into it.
quite easy really.
open a new spread sheet.
A1 - "Price of fuel per litre"
A2 - "amount you spent"
A3 - "Your fuel cost"
A4 - "the tax you paid"
Leave cell A5 blank
A6 - "Pre VAT"
A7 - "duty rate"
A8 - "Fuel cost"
format cell b1 to Number, currency
format cell b2 to number, currency
B3 - "=E1*B8"
B4 - "=SUM(E3:E5)"
Leave B5 blank
B6 - "=B1/1.2" - note if the VAT rate changes you can change this to B1/1.xx) where x= the VAT rate, currently 20% hence 1.2 but old vat would have been 1.175"
B7 - "0.5795" again this can be changed so if they do go ahead with planned 3p duty raise simply change to 0.6095"
B8 - "b6-B7"
Leave all of column C blank
D1 - "Litres bought"
D2 - "Fuel Cost"
D3 - "VAT on fuel"
D4 - "Fuel Duty"
D5 - "VAT on Duty"
E1 - "=B2/B1"
E2 - "=B8*E1"
E3 - "=E2*0.2" again if VAT changes change acordingly
E4 - "=B7*E1"
E5 - "=E4*0.2"
now you just need to concentrate on formatting to make it look good. good thing is to format all the cells showing money values to currency. Centre all cells vertically and horizontally, then make the cells showing values 14 pt bold and increse their height to 35 pixels. ALSO DONT FORGET TO SAVE YOUR SHEET BEFORE YOU CLOSE IT.