uropean haulier fined for VED evasion
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Running vehicles on interonal haulage without paying and at the wrong rate of y cost Eastern European .ight Ltd a total of 970.19 when it appeared are Manchester magises last week.
The company denied four !nces of using vehicles bout excise licences and it of using vehicles when a [ler rate of duty was pay,.
'rosecuting for the North stern Licensing Authority, istopher Worthy said tachoph records and international d haulage permits showed t vehicles were being used the company when they T not properly taxed.
le company operated arIlated outfits and if the trac! unit was used in this ntry without carrying goods
— eg to travel to and from its operating centre — they could be taxed at the private light goods rate.
However, once goods were carried the higher rate of duty became payable.
In this case the company taxed laden vehicles in this country at the private light goods rate of £90 per year instead of ,£2,450, as well as totally untaxed vehicles.
Traffic examiner Gary Shepherd said he had called at the company's premises in July, 1985. Tachograph charts showed two vehicles in use in the period between March and June.
Both had been last taxed at the private light goods rate, one excise licence expiring at the end of April, 1985, the other at the end of August, 1985. The tachograph chart for March 15 showed one of the vehicles on a journey from Dover to Manchester, and a permit showed that was part of a journey which started in He gave evidence of other occasions where charts and permits together showed the vehicles in use in this country while on international journeys.
Shepherd said he interviewed a director of the company, Geoffrey Rowdon Taylor. who said the vehicles were only used in this country to pick up a load or bring one back.
The magistrates found the cases proved. They fined the company a total of £1,200 and ordered it to pay £4,341.33 back duty and prosecution costs of 1'428.86.