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Lorry tax slammed
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TRANSPORT policy proposals in the Government's Green Paper will add heavily to business costs if they are implemented, it was claimed this week.
And as a result the cost of living would be increased for everybody, said Mr Andrew Warren, regional secretary of the British Road Federation.
Mr Warren, speaking to Luton Round Table on Monday, stressed that the road user more than paid his way already in terms of taxation. This year it amounted to £3 billion, well over an eighth of Britain's entire tax revenue, but less than half would be spent for the road user's benefit.
"Nobody is seeking to deny the very real problems that can be caused by lorries travelling through unsuitable residential or shopping streets. However, where a motorway is provided the heavy traffic can be satisfactorily separated.
"The heavy lorry does not exist of its own accord: it exists because our standard of living demands the goods that it brings," Mr Warren went on.