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Apr 24, 2010

TAX POLICY * Australia - Trucking Group Objects To Tax Increases

Proposed Increases 'Biased' Against Operators

Sydney,VIC,Australia –Handy Shipping Guide -23 April 2010: -- The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has submitted a request to the National Transport Commission, the body that make recommendations to the Federal Australian government on transport policy, to not allow a general increase in the fuel tax and registration charges paid by trucking operators in 2010-11... The ATA is responding to an NTC consultation paper that argues that the road haulage industry’s fuel tax and registration charges should go up by 4.2 per cent in 2010-11... ATA Chief Executive, Stuart St Clair, said the ATA submission showed the existing level of charges would collect more than enough revenue to cover the cost of the industry’s use of the road system... Stuart added that the formula used by the NTC to calculate the adjustment had a statistical bias toward collecting too much money from the industry...

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