revenue from the motor industry

greatdane

Im trying to work out exactly how much revenue the government take from the motor industry.
Does anyone know where i could get details of some of the questions

avg 2.3 million cars, how many commercial vehicles

revenue from motortax, think it is > 1 billion per year for private cars.
Avg petrol usage,
Amount of monies government get from insurance on the 2% levy
Amount of monies from petrol/diesel
amount of monies from fines
Amount of monies from NCT
And i suppose i could estimate the amount of Vat/Tax from things like parts, services etc.

Id say its a huge amount of income just from one part of society.
I would love to get info from revenue as to where all this money goes then, because it is not being spent on the road outside my house

any help appreciated

Anan1

greatdane wrote: »

I would love to get info from revenue as to where all this money goes then, because it is not being spent on the road outside my house

any help appreciated

It's not 'ringfenced' for roads, it goes into the general tax kitty.

mumblin deaf ro

€5.5bn in 2006 according to simi - will be much less this year because of the collapse of VRT.

PS: I've no simi connection so no simi bashing directed at me pl.

http://www.simi.ie/showcontent.asp?SubsectionID=12

greatdane

cheers, i was joking about the road obviously

im trying to break down the feb exchequer figures and they just dont add up.
based on averages for the motor industry my revenue info is way over what they are saying came in...
i must be wrong of course

pburns

greatdane wrote: »

Id say its a huge amount of income just from one part of society.
I would love to get info from revenue as to where all this money goes then, because it is not being spent on the road outside my house

Motorists (to use that slightly twee word) are hardly 'just one part of society'? Any taxes on motoring are pretty much across the spectrum - for good or ill. This revenue was never formally ringfenced but no-one can deny there's been massive investment in roads/infastructure in recent years (thank you EU).

Also I'd make a distinction between motorists/car owners and the 'motor industry' (which isn't really an industry at all)

To answer your question how much revenue comes from the motor industry - eh..not enough if the latest figures on the budget deficit are to be believed...

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pburns wrote: »

To answer your question how much revenue comes from the motor industry - eh..not enough if the latest figures on the budget deficit are to be believed...

I'm sure that this will be rectified very soon what with rumoured increases in excise duty and a wonderful new carbon tax...

The new CO2 based road tax rates might look like a good target for a hike too.