Domestic heating oil is subject to vat at 5%. If you have access to gas and electric your energy charges are regulated by the price cap, if you are on reliant on oil the price you pay is subject to immediate market pressures and the government is then adding a further 5% to a bill that has already more than doubled. Yet another stealth tax predominantly on rural areas where people are more reliant on their cars, where the running costs have also skyrocketed due the fuel crisis and road tax. Remove the vat from domestic heating oil now.