Heavies light on tax
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MAXIMUM-weight articulated lorries are still paying too little vehicle excise duty, according to the Department of Transport.
In its figures for the allocation of track costs for 1980/81, it says that four-axle 32-ton articulated lorries are paying 18 per cent less tax than the annual costs allocated to them, and 31 tonners are paying 15 per cent too little, All other categories are paying more than their allocated track costs, with 16-ton two axle rigids paying one per cent too much, 14-ton three axle artics 142 per cent over the top and 28-ton artics 42 per cent too much.
The figures are still inaccurate, according to the Freight Transport Association which advanced an alternative formula earlier this summer (CM, June 14) in which it was shown that lorries are paying £.496m too much tax, and that included 32-tonners which were paying £805 over the odds.