* Ile-de-France - Calls for eco-tax to trucks transit on
-- The president of the Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse, persists and wants to charge heavy lorries in transit. She waits by € 100 million to partially offset the deficit Navigo passes... True to his campaign promise to submit lorries in transit in the Paris region to a regional environmental tax, it takes the initiative on the subject and wishes to make the key measure of the Regional Plan of Action for air quality that it intends to complete before the summer... Highlight, Valérie Pécresse setting a strong argument for the government to reconsider the definitive abandonment of the environmental tax in 2014. It considers that part of the proceeds of this eco-tax would mop up the deficit of € 300 million Navigo passes single price that the Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, has committed to fund... Professional organization of road transport, FNTR Ile-de-France have reacted strongly. They said in a statement deemed "exorbitant" cost of € 100 million for carriers. "According to data from the strategic directions document for freight released in May 2012 by DRIEA (Regional and Interdepartmental Directorate of Infrastructure and Spatial Ile de France), about 242,000 trucks which circulate in the Ile-de-France each day to power the economy of the region, only 14,700 (or barely 6%) are in transit," said francilienne federation. Which notes that this tax "will cause a considerable distortion of competition between the regions"... For now, the claim of Valérie Pécresse involves open negotiations with the government. Indeed, a region has no power alone, to set up this device. A decree will be needed...
(Photo: Paris mayor calls for ban on polluting air)
Paris, France - WK Transport, by Louis Guarino - 13 April 2016
Labels: "green" taxes, air pollution, trucking industry news worldwide
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