Family finances:
Miscellaneous taxes
There is an increasing range of other taxes in the UK:
- Excise duty on beer, wine, spirits, tobacco and fuel
- Vehicle excise duty (also called road fund licence)
- Betting and gaming duties
- Insurance premium tax (introduced in October 1994 on general insurance premiums)
- Air passenger tax (introduced in November 1994 on air travel from UK airports)
- Landfill tax (introduced in October 1996 on the disposal of waste to landfill)
- Climate charge levy (introduced in April 2001 on the commercial use of electricity, coal, natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas)
- Council tax
- Business rates
- Taxation of North Sea Production (payable in addition to corporation tax)
These are outside the scope of this section but are mentioned for completeness.
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