Goods vehicle taxation in international traffic
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• Foreign goods vehicles entering Great Britain will be exempt from payment of vehicles excise duty for as long as they remain exempt from Customs duty, under an Order-in-Council—the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969 No. 1086)—which comes into operation on November 4.
This, together with a similar Order made in Northern Ireland, has enabled the UK to accede to the Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles engaged in International Goods Transport, drawn up in Geneva under the auspices of the ECE in 1956.
The effect of the Convention, together with various bilateral agreements on goods vehicle taxation signed in recent months, is that British vehicles will be similarly exempt from vehicle taxation when visiting those countries which are party to the 1956 Convention. They will also be exempt in those countries with whom bilateral agreements have been negotiated.
Countries party to the Convention are: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Poland (from December 3 1969).
Bilateral agreements providing for waiver of vehicle taxation are now, or will shortly be, in force with Turkey, France, Netherlands, Rumania, and Sweden.
An agreement with Yugoslavia will exempt British hauliers from transport tax in that country.