years too late, according to contractual arrangements.
successive Governments saw this as another 'little earner', and kept scchhtumm.

So where's the refunds for those that over-paid ?

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

Sorry free isn't good enough you have to pay me first.

One more point

what hacks me off (memory from a lecture in 1988 ), is that there is shed loads of money taken in road tax, but only around <10% of that is spent on road maintenance and building.
Why should people with vehicles keep double-funding stuff, when they already over-pay in tax ?

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (03 Oct 2018 6.59am)

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

What we know as Road Tax was originally called the Road Fund Licence, the clue to its purpose being in the name itself, the name being changed over the years to disguise (and justify) the diversion of this money away from its intended application. Rather like the Ponzi scheme better known as 'National Insurance', in fact.

Death Duties (or Capital Transfer Tax or Inheritance Tax, depending on how long your memory is) was never intended to fund the construction of crematoria or to otherwise assist in the disposal of corpses.

Perhaps you were just being flippant, though.

Dartford crossing was going to be free once it was paid off but instead the government sold it to a Franch company it which some of there mates have shares in . so warning to the severn bridge it may soon belong to a German company

I'd guess it wouldn't make much difference. People commuting to Cardiff/Newport from Bristol had no alternative other than to pay the toll. I can't see that making the East to West crossing free will impact on traffic volume.