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The Impact On People's Leisure Lifestyles And Businesses Through Pay As You ...


The Impact on People's Leisure Lifestyles and Businesses Through Pay as You Go Road Tax

Civic life is improved through the various schemes that governments have formulated and implemented. Schemes to improve life of the people have been based on various taxes. Various taxes have been used to support civic life, which can be availed in the form of healthcare, education, recreational facilities, etc. Therefore, charging different taxes is important for a government, as it enables the authorities to come up with the funds required to improve civic life. One main issue in improving civic life is to improve the roads one travels on. Roads are used for a variety of purposes, such as traveling to a hospital, traveling to an airport, traveling for business or for recreational or leisure purposes. Since everyone needs properly constructed and safe roads to be maintained, there is a price to pay that one pays in the form of fuel duty and road tax. This has worked for a long time, and has been effective. However, with an increasing number of cars on the roads, there are some roads that are over crowded at peak hours. This has led to newer concepts being considered that would now look after maintaining roads as well as help in keeping them less crowded. One concept that is expected to be implemented in a few years is the 'Pay as You Go' scheme, which could be introduced to replace the current forms of road tax and fuel duty.
What is the 'Pay as You Go' scheme about? 'Pay as You Go' is a tracking system that takes note of the amount you travel and on which roads you travel. With knowing this information, authorities can charge an owner of a vehicle according to where s/he has traveled and on which roads s/he has traveled. Some roads that are more crowded at peak hours will have a higher fee for traveling on. While less cramped roads at peak hours will have a lower charge. It is said that for using a quieter road at a rush hour, one would pay a lower rate, starting at 2p, and, to use a motorway at peak hours, one would pay up to £1.34. The reasoning behind this is that this form of charging road tax would allow people to choose less crowded roads. To some, this may seem to be a good replacement for the current forms of road tax. However, there are also many issues that people have been arguing about regarding the 'Pay As You Go' road charge (Pay-as-you-go' road charge plan, 2005). There are bound to be repercussions for new implementations such as 'Pay as You Go'. For example, people who travel around a lot would have to pay more than others. Also, tourists who come to a city would be charged more because they spend a lot of their time traveling (Gateway users, 2007).
People already feel that their lifestyles will be impacted significantly through 'Pay as You Go'. This is because it automatically means that they will have to pay more for going to particular places they want to.

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