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FTA slams 'these shabby taxes'
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HANCELLOR Denis Heay's motives for increasing ehicle and fuel taxation were thabby and unworthy of a abinet Minister."
The comment was made by ugh Featherstone, directoreneral of the Freight Tran)ort Association, at the FTA lidlands region luncheon. Lorries paid £400 million more in taxation than the track costs they imposed, said Mr Featherstone. It was impossible to reconcile the Government's professed aim of rational transport policy with the imposition of taxation aimed at restricting expenditure.
The abolition of vehicle tax with the burden being shifted to fuel tax was extremely unlikely in Mr Featherstone's opinion, but a system of taxation based on gross vehicle weights was probable.
But any idea of the harmonisation of vehicle taxation throughout the Common Market was "a pipe-dream".
On the subject of drivers' hours, he pointed out that the Common Market Commission had no real powers to grant a further deferment and was sure that the introduction of Regulation 543/69 was imminent.
On this Regulation, he could not foresee any radical changes being made in its provisions apart from the withdrawal of the 450km (280-mile) restriction.
There were still some uncertainties about the regulations concerning the access to the profession of road haulier.
These included establishing who was in a position responsible for the operation of goods vehicles for the issue of "grandfather rights", the possibility of including a right of appeal, and how many certificates of competence will a company need?