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Ili Common Market officials working on plans for harmonising road
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transport taxes among EEC countries have ruled out an early end to motorway tolls in
France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
A scheme for waiving all tolls for lorries and coaches throughout the EEC has been abandoned as politically impractical.
"There seems no alternative but to continue for the time being with the toll system which has developed in the South IA the community over the past three decades," a senior official told CM in Brussels.
"Countries where motorways are built with private money can't attract investors unless they can offer the tolls as a guarantee."
For three months the Commission has been working on a study, which should be ready by the end of this year, dealing with all aspects of tax harmonisation.
On vehicle tax. EEC officials are suggesting that all countries should levy the same rate, about midway between the high German and British level and the low Italian and Dutch charges.
This simple formula is now preferred in Brussels to the complicated proposal, tabled some years ago, which took account of other marginal costs.
Harmonisation of fuel duty by 1992 has already been accepted in principle by EEC governments.
This problem, however, will be given less priority, said Transport Secretary John Moore in a speech to the European Parliament's Transport Committee.