Diesel vs. Red Diesel

[Southern Star]

Thanks for your advice everyone! I'm sorted now. Wondering though, don't petrol stations somehow check if you're entitled to buy red? Wouldn't people just fill up their cars with red diesel?

I just bought a jerry can of red diesel about an hour ago, I do this fairly regularly. I assume all filling stations are the same, I have to fill in a declaration, name, address, registration number or number of containers, am I VAT registered, and what the fuel is to be used for (in my case, a generator in my yard). The receipt gets stapled to this, and it gets returned to HMRC. Presumably, if you bought a lot of it regularly HMRC would investigate. I generally buy 10 litres every six weeks or so, so I doubt they'd be too interested in that..

 

 

If it's of any interest, I paid 75p per litre today.

Edited January 2, 2015 by Southern Star

[Robbo]

I just bought a jerry can of red diesel about an hour ago, I do this fairly regularly. I assume all filling stations are the same, I have to fill in a declaration, name, address, registration number or number of containers, am I VAT registered, and what the fuel is to be used for (in my case, a generator in my yard). The receipt gets stapled to this, and it gets returned to HMRC. Presumably, if you bought a lot of it regularly HMRC would investigate. I generally buy 10 litres every six weeks or so, so I doubt they'd be too interested in that..

 

 

At our local filling station I just fill up a few jerry can's of red and pay. I think I've done around 5 jerry cans at one time.

[anniewhere]

Ok cheers, very good to know!

[OldGoat]

 

At our local filling station I just fill up a few jerry can's of red and pay. I think I've done around 5 jerry cans at one time.

 

That's down to bad practice, rather than being 'allowed'

 

You're not supposed to be supplied with more than 10l in cans at any one time (applies to diesel as well as petrol)

In addition if more than 20l (IRRC) of Red then the seller is supposed to get you to declare what you're going to use it for.

 

If anyone in general is 'getting away' with more - then tread carefully; treat it as a concession.......

[Southern Star]

Strictly speaking you shouldn't call it a jerry can, they are called that because they were a German invention so that's "wacist", innit?