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Interest Rate Rise * Australia - Should halt truck price hikes
Today’s rise in the official interest rate shows the Australian Government should immediately reject the National Transport Commission’s (NTC) plan to increase truck registration charges and the tax paid by trucking operators on diesel, according to the truck lobby
Melbourne,Australia -ATN -5 February 2008: -- ... The Chief Executive of the Australian Trucking Association (ATA), Stuart St Clair, says the plan will increase the cost of household basics for working families reeling from yet another increase in interest rates. The NTC has recommended increasing the tax paid by trucking operators on diesel from 19.633 cents per litre to 21 cents per litre — an increase of 1.367 cents per litre... The Australian, state and territory governments will decide whether to go ahead with the NTC’s plan in the next few months. Under the plan, the tax on diesel would increase truck registration charges would be phased in over three years... (Video from YouTube, by ianbrown8 -August 23, 2007: "Roadtrains of Australia" huge trucks cross the whole of oz in a few days carrying all sorts of cargo)
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