"It's time to go Nick" says Scott Collins, PPC for South Northamptonshire
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by admin on 20 March, 2012
I would encourage anyone reading this article to sign the petition to encourage the Government to exempt Air Ambulance services from duty on the fuel they use, in the same way as the Lifeboats (RNLI) are exempt.
I am sure we all have a huge amount of respect and thanks for the service these air ambulances provide nationwide, most notably locally theWarwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance.
The service they provide is second to none and gives us all that little bit of reassurance should the unthinkable happen and we need their services.
Should the pettion reach 100’000 signatrures the issue will have a strong chance of being debated and highlighting this current irregularity between emergency services.
Many Thanks to Phil Knowles for bringing this petition to my notice
The wording of the petition is below.
Responsible department: Her Majesty’s Treasury
The Air Ambulance Service is forced to meet rising fuel prices year on year including VAT.
The Air Ambulance Service have saved successive governments millions and millions of pounds funded by charitable donations given by the general public to run what has proven to be an essential service.
Whilst the Lifeboat Service has been exempt from VAT on fuel costs since 1977, a similar privilege has not been afforded to the Air Ambulance Service;
We call on the government to have an urgent review of this situation and in doing so
We call on the government to return in the form of grants to Air Ambulance Service providers all the future VAT which the Treasury collects from them so that the Air Ambulance Service is in practice exempt from paying VAT in the same way as the Lifeboat Service
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