HIKE: Motorists are set for another hike in fuel duty

It is gearing up to hit hard-pressed drivers with another fuel-duty hike within weeks – and an average family will be £104 a year worse off as a ­result.

But the Treasury will rake in £3.8million per day more tax from unleaded petrol sales than it did just two years ago, according to the AA motoring ­organisation.

Duty on unleaded and diesel will rise by 1.84p to 54.19p a litre next month.

That means roughly 71 per cent of the price of petrol will go to the Government via fuel duty and VAT,

according to PetrolPrices.com. Just two years ago duty was 48.35p a litre.

Edmund King, AA president, called for the planned April duty hike to be shelved.