TAX PLEA FROM RHA
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Road Haulage Association director-general George Newman has issued a plea to the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to increase vehicle taxation in the Budget due later this month.
Mr Newman has told the Chancellor that the Government's Green Paper on transport has acknowledged that any increased tax on goods vehicles would have an infla tionary effect.
He says that any increases in taxation would have to be passed on to the the customer, pushing up the prices of almost all goods.
"The RHA has viewed the taxation of road goods vehicles with increasing concern since the publication of the consultation document," said Mr Newman.
Allegations that the ratio of tax paid by heavy goods vehicles to their attributable costs had fallen since 1968 had been based on calculations made before increases in fuel duty in the 1976 Budget.
He claimed that the calculations in the Green Paper "were based arbitrarily and unjustifiably on the allocation of road maintenance costs for lorries on the basis of three passenger car units per lorry."