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28 July 2003: If the Iraq War doesn't bring Tony Blair down, a new 'crime victim' tax on traffic fines certainly should, if it gets passed by the current British Government.

According to reports in the Sunday Times, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has approved the £35 surcharge to fixed penalty notices, such as parking tickets and speeding fines, to provide funds for a state victims fund.

It would also be applied to all criminal sentences that are punished with fines, but most of the money raised would come from the millions of petty offences committed by generally law-abiding British people.

Home Secretary David Blunkett also wants a £3 levy on every home insurance policy in order to raise a further £54m a year for the same fund.

	July 2003 - Ray Bernard
British motorists to pay 'crime victim tax' 28 July 2003: If the Iraq War doesn't bring Tony Blair down, a new 'crime victim' tax on traffic fines certainly should, if it gets passed by the current British Government. According to reports in the Sunday Times, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has approved the £35 surcharge to fixed penalty notices, such as parking tickets and speeding fines, to provide funds for a state victims fund. It would also be applied to all criminal sentences that are punished with fines, but most of the money raised would come from the millions of petty offences committed by generally law-abiding British people. Home Secretary David Blunkett also wants a £3 levy on every home insurance policy in order to raise a further £54m a year for the same fund.
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