M50 Increase!!!!

listermint

I was reading yesterday in the Herald that the toll is due to go up to 2.08 Euro.

Another stick up the motorists a**e .

With this barrier free tolling they can stick these increases on when they feel like it.
Bloody government. The barrier free tolling works quite well as it has free'd up the blockage sitting there for near 2 decades but they go an shaft motorists again with this crap.

leon8v

listermint wrote: »

The barrier free tolling works quite well as it has free'd up the blockage sitting there for near 2 decades

I agree that the removal of the restriction of barriers has helped traffic but the "barrier free tolling" part of it is a complete farce. It is still a mess.

Cookie_Monster

that would be the increase in VAT from 21% to 21.5% i presume?

After all it is a luxury to travel on:rolleyes:

EDIT: Perhaps not

2.00 =121% including the VAT

1.65 = 100%

2.00.8 = 121.5%

CrowdedHouse

It's probably because VAT is going up next month,loads of stuff will go up !

leon8v

Thats the VAT that you can no longer claim back on the Toll too!!!

lynchie

I thought the toll no longer attracts VAT as its owed by the government now?

Cookie_Monster

lynchie wrote: »

I thought the toll no longer attracts VAT as its owed by the government now?

The government are hardly going to stop taking in VAT purely because they own it. why would they cut off €12 m in earning*

* Very large ballpark (100,000 journeys per day X 35c VAT X 365 days)

DublinDilbert

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

The government are hardly going to stop taking in VAT purely because they own it. why would they cut off €12 m in earning*

* Very large ballpark (100,000 journeys per day X 35c VAT X 365 days)

Government can't charge VAT on any service they offer....

They effectively increased the cost of the toll when they took over & removed the VAT, hence no loss to the government... to the average motorist there was no apparent change... but to businesses who can claim back VAT there was effectively an increase when the government took over...

Cookie_Monster

DublinDilbert wrote: »

Government can't charge VAT on any service they offer....

They effectively increased the cost of the toll when they took over & removed the VAT, hence no loss to the government... to the average motorist there was no apparent change... but to businesses who can claim back VAT there was effectively an increase when the government took over...

BUt users are not paying the government anyway. They pay one of the many companies, who charge VAT and hand it over to the government surely.

Either way the .5% increase in VAT cannot explain the 8c rise so it is not related to that but something else

Tipsy Mac

Nothing to do with VAT, simply doing it because they can...

There is some relief for users of Dublin's M50 and the city's Port Tunnel, as these are State-owned and not subject to VAT. But motorists using these facilities will face increases from January.

Cars on the M50 with an electronic tag, for example face an increase in January of about 8.4 cent - bringing the toll to €2.08. Cars on the M4 face both increases which will see them facing a two-step rise from the current €2.70 to about €2.90.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1018/1224279407681.html