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IRISH hauliers' French fait style protests against he taxation (CM July 25) see have cut little ice with the co try's new Government, as it imposed increases in vs added tax and dery duty.
The Irish Road Haulage As ciation reckons that the la package of increases, flounced last week by Fine Minister John Bruton, wo add six to seven per cent operating costs at a time w business is already unit pressure.
Mr Bruton announced t another four pence will be ad to the tax on petrol and d and that there will be an el pence per gallon increase in tax on liquid petroleum gas use in motor vehicles.
Vat goes up from ten to 15 cent on September 1, with three per cent rate on buil staying at its present level. 1 Bruton told the Dail {Parham that the fuel and vat increb will raise the price of a gallo dery by 12p (Irish) to 1R£1.79..
Before this increase, dery by 73 per cent in 18 month .which 40 per cent was attrib to taxation, according to IRHA.