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TAX POLICIES * Australia - Climate change bills confirm truck exemption
The trucking industry’s two-year exemption from the carbon tax has been confirmed
(Video from Youtube, by Roco43 -04 Aug 2008: Trucks around Australia)
Sydney,Australia --Australian Trucking Association/The Friday Facts -16 September 2011: ... The exemption is included in the Australian Government’s climate change bills, which it introduced into Parliament this week after a short consultation period... Under the bills, most business fuel users, including the rail and mining sectors, would be subject to the tax from 1 July 2012. Following lobbying from the ATA and its members, the Government announced the trucking industry would not be subject to the tax until 1 July 2014. The Australian Trucking Association would continue arguing for a permanent exemption from the tax... “85 per cent of trucking businesses are small businesses with fewer than five employees. They are no different to other small businesses that are exempt from the carbon tax, except they happen to operate trucks weighing more than 4.5 tonnes,” ATA Chief Executive Stuart St Clair said...
* Europe - Eurovignette Directive finally adopted
(Video from Youtube, by TruckerBoy22 -22 Sept 2010: thx for watching - Music: Velvet-Chemistry -radio_edit)
Brussels,Belgium -Truck & Business, by Claude Yvens -14 Sept 2011: -- The European Council adopted on Sept. 12 proposed amendments on June 7 on the Eurovignette... Directive is finally adopted, and member states have two years to transpose its provisions into national law. If they wish, so the states can introduce new tolls that incorporate the concept of 'externalities' such as air pollution or noise caused by trucks...
* Europe - Working time directive: the big countries get a ticking off
Brussels,Belgium -Truck Europe, by Claude Yvens -14 Sept 2011: -- On Monday, European Commissioner, Siim Kallas, indicated that 14 of the 27 member states have so far transposed the work time directive regarding road transport into national law. The 14 to have done so are Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, la Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia... It will be recalled that this directive sets out a working week of 48 hours, able to be extended to 60 hours provided the average of 48 hours is not exceeded in a 4 month period. The most controversial clause in this directive involved the inclusion of independent drivers, and it is this particular clause which is hindering transposition into national law in the major transport markets such as France, Germany, Spain and the UK...
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