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Sweepers plan to fight VED change

3rd August 1995, Page 7
3rd August 1995
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Roadsweeper operators are planning a campaign to change the law after last year's Budget imposed big vehicle excise duty increases on their specially converted vehicles.

They believe they are the victims of a "penny pinching tax exercise" after chancellor Kenneth Clarke changed their vehicles' VED exempt status to a system based on each vehicle's gross weight as is used for multipurpose vehicles.

Manchester-based J&G Plant director Jim Yule is furious that MPs and ministers ignored his pleas for help before the law came into effect on 1 July.

Since then he has paid £650

in road tax for each of his Johnstone 600 series roadsweepers.

"A roadsweeper is not a multipurpose vehicle, it can only clean roads," he says. "A roadsweeper travels on average 6,000-10,000 miles a year compared to an LGV which travels more than 100,000."

After a meeting officials from the Department of Transport, Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency and the Treasury last Friday, Yule is calling on 30 roadsweeping companies to back him in a campaign to change ministers' minds if the Government refuses to change the law.

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Locations: Manchester

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