His Imperial Highnesses Government of United Duchies Public Relations Department
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Change in Vehicle Tax systems for 2024
While we welcome the widespread adoption of BEV vehicles we are concerned with higher sales of heavier less efficient EV models especially that of crossovers and their impact on the road surface maintenance bill. we have therefore decided the vehicle tax will be split into two ways of calculating vehicle tax. Petrol and petrol hybrids will be calculated the same system as previous with the new rates of:Band Co 2 per km 2024 Euros 1 0-100 g co2 per km £133 €206.31 2 101-140 g co2 per km £333 €515.76 3 141-160g co2 per km £449 €696.28 4 161-180g co2 per km £606 €939.98 5 181-200g co2 per km £819 €1,268.97 6 201-220 co2 per km £1,105 €1,713.11 7 221-240 co2 per km £1,492 €2,312.70 8 241-260 g co 2 per km £2,014 €3,122.14 9 261-280 g co 2 per km £2,719 €4,214.89 10 281-300g co 2 per km £3,671 €5,690.10 11 301g- 350g co 2 per km £4,956 €7,681.64 12 351g + co 2 per km £5,556 €8,611.80 From this year BEV , Biofuel and Hybrid Vehicles will have road tax calculated under a new weight based method:
Weight class KG Tax Dux Libra Euros 1 0-1500 £133.00 €206.15 2 1501-1750 £250.00 €387.50 3 1751-2000 £350.00 €542.50 4 2001-2250 £500.00 €775.00 5 2251-2500 £600.00 €930.00 6 2501-2750 £1,000.00 €1,550.00 8 3001-3500 £2,150.00 €3,332.50 9 3501-4000 £2,450.00 €3,797.50 10 4001-4500 £2,950.00 €4,572.50 11 4501-5000 £3,350.00 €5,192.50 12 5001+ £3,850.00 €5,967.50 The move should hopefully balance out emissions and road damage factors.
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Terrorist threat level set to Critical
We have in response to statements on twitter and social media by one Tarek Al-Wazir and evidence from intelligence set the terror level to critical. This means we consider there is a high risk of terrorism in the immediate future if we do not act. We are authorising police extra powers to deal with any threats and the authorisation to deploy armed police in all major areas of cities such as stations , airports , stadiums and major events. We will not cower to terrorists and will make sure events are safe. We are reviewing security arrangements for the families named in the tweets and the families of politicians who may be under threat. We will act against all forms of terror and not stand for this threat to all Duchians. -
Creation of Public Broadcaster Content Library
In partnership with all public brodcasters in the United Duchies we have set up a Duchian Public Broadcasters Content Library. This project will be funded by a 0.5% of revenue membership fee and at least 50% of their programmes being put into to the content library in for access . The project shall give all producers working for public broadcasters access to clips, assets , graphics and programmes much like if you pay for access to shutterstock you get access to all images and clips in the shutterstock library. This will mean producers don't have to individually licence clips or programmes or travel with production crews and presenters to create duplicate content wasting public money on producing content and shall enable the production of many more original programmes with the same budgets benefitting all Duchians by reducing repeat programmes on television. The idea was proposed by Mary Beck and shall be in existence until such time an EUBC content library is created. We will welcome other public broadcasters to put their only programmes and content in on the same terms to widen the benefit of the programme. The Public Broadcaster Content Library shall exist until a bigger international Content Library is founded.
