The report is expected to point out that there is still scope for raising petrol duties sharply.

ECONOMIST: Traffic

Its chairman, David Begg, wants to explore whether road pricing could replace vehicle excise duty and petrol duties.

ECONOMIST: Transport strategy

Yet his rises in petrol and other road fuel duties were modest, and he announced no environmental innovations.

ECONOMIST: A disappointing start

Crude-oil costs are a bigger slice of the prices American consumers pay for petrol: lower sales taxes and fuel duties mean swings in oil markets have a bigger effect on pump prices.

ECONOMIST: Debt and deflation

To finance its half-billion-dollar annual budget, the Hamas government has instituted an effective tax regime, raising duties on tunnel imports, including cigarettes, petrol, clothes and bread.

ECONOMIST: Israel and Gaza

Excise duties are paid on alcoholic drinks, cigarettes and petrol, among other things.

BBC: Lunch Lesson 10 - Pre-Budget speech