Charlie Weston

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1,990 appearances 20 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Government Expected To Make €1.67bn On Vat From Fuel · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

Uh that that that means the government's taking in more VAT.

Even though they've they they've reduced the excise duty on petrol and diesel, the VAT receipts are way up.

1.67 billion.

So almost 1.7 billion higher uh likely to be for this year uh in terms of VAT take.

So you know the government doing pretty well on that one.

But given what we

yeah,

Yeah, I think you know, there's no way that they're gonna be able to re restore f start restoring the the the these cuts to uh petrol and diesel in particular from September, you know.

Uh and given then that that that that people now know that fat receipts are way up.

Mm uh, you know, you're taking with one hand and and you give 'em with the other as as Pater Tobin of Aintu said, you know, so I I it's going to be very, very difficult for them.

Um the VAT is very high in this country anyway.

The standard rate of twenty three percent is extremely

Extremely high.

Yeah.

Now that's supposed to be on luxury goods, but it's on the likes of petrol.

It's on diesel.

Yeah, it's on a lot of stuff.

A lot of stuff.

And then you you you find the other rate, the thirteen and a half percent rate is on

But if you buy petrol or diesel uh at the pumps, it's twenty three percent.

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