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fuel duty

fuel duty noun: a tax levied by the government on fuels like petrol (gasoline) and diesel.

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

Forms of fuel duty

pluralfuel duties

Questions about fuel duty

What does fuel duty mean?
Fuel duty means a tax levied by the government on fuels like petrol (gasoline) and diesel.
What part of speech is fuel duty?
Fuel duty is a noun.
What is the plural of fuel duty?
The plural of fuel duty is fuel duties.

Words near fuel duty in the dictionary

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

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