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fuel duties

fuel duties is the plural of fuel duty.

Meaning of fuel duty

Noun

fuel duty (countable and uncountable, plural fuel duties)

  1. (UK) A tax levied by the government on fuels like petrol (gasoline) and diesel.
    • "We need a different understanding of revenues and public expenditure. The 15-year freeze on fuel duty and lack of tax on aviation fuel are effectively a huge subsidy to those forms of travel, but they are not described as subsidy because they are foregone revenue. Yet if you invest to hold rail...2025 May 28, Ben Plowden talks to Anthony Lambert, “The railway is an essential public service”, in RAIL, number 1036, page 33

Questions about fuel duties

What is fuel duties the plural of?
Fuel duties is the plural of fuel duty.

Words near fuel duties in the dictionary

  1. fuel caps
  2. fuel cell
  3. fuel cell vehicle
  4. fuel cell vehicles
  5. fuel cells
  6. fuel duties
  7. fuel duty
  8. fuel economies
  9. fuel economy
  10. fuel filter
  11. fuel filters

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