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Fuel Duty

Monthly

£2.1bn

Share of receipts

3.2%

Per household

£70

Per person

£31

Trend

£-0.2bn (-9%) since 2019

Data sourcesHMRC — Tax receipts and National Insurance contributionsHMRC APIs (api.gov.uk)DfT — Transport statistics Great BritainDfT APIs (api.gov.uk)
exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields

Why it is flat

  • Frozen since 2011

  • 5p cut extended

  • Electric shift

Every driver and every business that moves goods by road.

Inside the £2.1bn

Data sourcesHMRC — Tax receipts and National Insurance contributionsHMRC APIs (api.gov.uk)DfT — Transport statistics Great BritainDfT APIs (api.gov.uk)
exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields

Petrol

£0.9bn

42.9% · £30/household

  • Unleaded
  • Super unleaded

Diesel

£1.1bn

52.4% · £37/household

  • Road diesel
  • Freight

Other fuels

£0.1bn

4.7% · £3/household

  • Rebated fuel
  • LPG

Fuel duty raises less in real terms today than it did in 2010.

Duty plus VAT makes up roughly half the price of a litre of petrol.

The OBR expects receipts to decline as vehicles electrify.

Sources

Financial year 2024/25.