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Turkish tax solution soon
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[torn our Parliamentary correspondent
• Agreements are to be drawn up with Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Turkey covering reductions in the tax British goods vehicles will have to pay in these countries—with reciprocal arrangements when their vehicles come here.
Announcing this in the Commons, Mr. Bob Brown, Parliamentary Secretary, said
that the Government was first pushing ahead with the Turkish and Swedish agreements.
He was replying to a short debate opened by Mr. A. H. MacDonald (Labour, Chislehurst), who had complained about the tax imposed on foreign goods vehicles entering or passing through Turkey.
Mr. MacDonald said that since the tax had been imposed last July Asian Transport Ltd., a firm in his constituency, had paid £7,600. The cost had been £300 a vehicle before devaluation and £340 afterwards.
Mr. Brown detailed the steps which the Government had taken to try to reach agreement with Turkey about lifting this tax from British vehicles. "Considerable time and trouble has been devoted to trying to get the lot of British Hauliers who trade to Turkey alleviated," he said. "Difficulty after difficulty was overcome with as much speed and flexibility as we could command."
He hoped that an Order in Council bring ing into effect the agreements with Turkey and Sweden would be made very soon.