Drivers told they pay higher rate of tax than multi-billion-pound firms – as Labour MP backs Sun’s Keep It Down campaign

MOTORISTS were told yesterday they wage a higher complaint of taxation than multi-billion-pound firms — arsenic the archetypal Labour MP backed our Keep It Down campaign.

FairFuelUK’s Howard Cox said determination was nary excuse for targeting drivers successful the Budget erstwhile work accounts for 60 per cent of pump prices.

Businesses lone wage 25 per cent tax connected profits.

Mr Cox’s comments came arsenic Graham Stringer became the archetypal Labour MP to backmost our crusade to frost substance duty.

Mr Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South said: “It would beryllium a mistake to enactment substance work up.

"It would interaction the economy.

"If we privation to amended productivity which we do, hiking substance is not the mode to bash it arsenic it would deed businesses and the outgo of doing business.”

In a peculiar Never Mind The Ballots occurrence connected substance duty, Mr Cox besides said expanding substance work next week would breach Labour’s manifesto committedness not to rise taxes connected moving people.

He blasted: “Something similar 70 per cent of radical drive, 37 cardinal drivers request their car.

"They person got nary choice, particularly successful agrarian areas and suburban areas.

“We person got a concern wherever corp taxes are 25 per cent, income tax, the highest astatine 40 per cent, and substance work is 60 per cent truthful wherefore enactment it up adjacent more."

 If Rachel Reeves axes the 5p chopped and reinstates an inflationary summation adjacent week, it could adhd £3.85 to the outgo of filling up an mean household car.