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* Australia - CARBON TAX: "More small trucking businesses to close"
* ACT - Truckers declare war on carbon tax
Canberra,ACT,Australia -Transport and Logistic News, by Charles Pauka -June 18, 2013: -- The government’s plan to extend the carbon tax to truck fuel would cause more small trucking businesses to close, the chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, David Simon said... Mr Simon was launching the ATA’s 2013 election campaign. The campaign focuses on the carbon tax, as well as fixing the road funding system and the way the industry is charged for its use of the roads... “The Labor Government plans to extend its carbon tax to the fuel used by the trucking industry. Trucking operators would pay almost seven cents per litre in extra fuel tax from 1 July 2014. This would cost the industry more than half a billion dollars in the first year,” Mr Simon said... "The Labor Government expected trucking operators to switch to alternative fuels like biodiesel, which are not subject to the carbon tax"... But he said it wasn’t too late for the Labor Government to change its mind...
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