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Assessment too great, claims Diss firm

9th February 1973
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• A company operating its own drivers' training scheme and travelling 75 per cent of its annual mileage abroad should not be asked to pay a levy to the Road Transport Industry Training Board, or should be assessed only on the basis of miles travelled on British roads.

This submission was made on behalf of J. Wyatt junior (Haulage) Ltd, Diss, Norfolk, before an industrial tribunal in Bury St Edmunds last week in appeal against an assessment of £1032 for the year 1970/71.

Mr James McClusky, general manager, said that his vehicles had travelled 525,000 miles of which 381,000 miles were abroad.

But, said Mr G. R. Slade, for the RTITB, there was no machinery for exemptions based on overseas operation. The Board was required to base the levy on the emoluments of all persons employed at or from the company's base.

Mr P. Rollin, for the haulage company, said that the matter had never before been raised before a tribunal or court. Since the company was operating for three-quarters of its time outside the UK it was not wholly or mainly engaged in the road transport industry in this country and it should be exempt from the levy. If this submission failed, he said, then the levy should be based on only that portion of the business that operated in the UK.

The tribunal reserved its decision.


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