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Jan 25, 2012

TAX POLICIES * UK

* UK - Foreign trucks must pay for using UK roads

London,EN,UK -Commercial Motor, by Hayley Pink -25 January 2012:  -- Foreign trucks could face a £10 per day charge to use UK roads under government plans to introduce a lorry road user charge...  In a consultation to be announced later today, the Department for Transport (DfT) will reveal details of the scheme intended to level the playing field between foreign hauliers and British hauliers, who are already required to pay charges for using roads in mainland Europe...  In contrast, UK-registered HGVs pay charges or tolls in most other European countries, for example, a lorry doing a two-day return trip from the UK to the Netherlands pays 16 Euros in user charges...


* UK - Plans to Compensate Domestic Truckers for Road-Usage Levy

London,EN,UK -Bloomberg (USA), by Gonzalo Vina -Jan 25, 2012: -- Britain’s government will compensate owners of U.K.-registered trucks who will face a daily charge of as much as 10 pounds ($15.6) to use their vehicles by 2015, Transport Minister, Mike Penning, said...  The U.K. is seeking ways to charge foreign hauliers to use Britain’s roads without hurting U.K. lorry drivers. European Union rules prevent the U.K. from charging only trucks with foreign plates. About 1.5 million trips a year are made by such vehicles... “We want to ensure that U.K. hauliers get a fairer deal and help maintain the competitiveness of our logistics industry,” Penning said in a statement released by his office in London today...

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