`  :: DF, Mariordo has shown patience above & beyond the call of duty and been the epitome of cool over many months in dealing with your incessant attempts, over dozens of articles, to push a clearly minority POV that any usage charge on congestion, emissions, or other motoring expense is a tax. He has even embraced the inclusion of this minority view in articles, albeit in the context of controversy or a minority perspective. For each of your popular press articles cited we could pull out many, many more that refer to them as charges, levies, etc.  I noted that many of your Ozzie reference articles also used other terms than tax. In technical literature you won't find such terminology. For your future guidance, I again ask you to take a look at a definition of tax such as: Chambers, or OED. Note they use the term ``compulsory contribution``. A pure Treasury fund-raising ``tax`` is compulsory, yet these traffic ``charges`` can be avoided by changing behaviour by changing fuels, routes, vehicle class, or mode.   `