The fuel tax was increased by more than the inflation rate every year from 2009 to 2020, except for 2014. As the economy and revenues cracked during state capture and the public debt burden climbed, the government turned to tax hikes to try to contain this.
Increasing fuel taxes was an easy one, which went relatively unnoticed until it became a big part of the pump price. In 2021, the increase was slowed to inflation; then as oil spiked globally after Russia invaded Ukraine, the tax was temporarily reduced in 2022...
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