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Taxes - UK - Foreign hauliers tax plan to fund lorry park
Kent,UK - Kent On Line, by Paul Francis -13 Oct 2005: -- Foreign hauliers could be forced to pay a special tax to help fund a lorry park near the M20 in Kent... Under a radical plan, county transport chiefs say a levy on the three million foreign lorries crossing the channel each year could pay for the construction of a lorry park to ease the problems caused when Operation Stack is implemented... Kent County Council says it wants talks with transport ministers and treasury officials to discuss if a lorry park tax, that could be added on to the price of ferry or shuttle tickets, would be viable... Operation Stack has been activated 18 times this year and has left Kent Police with an overtime bill of £123,000...
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