* Brussels - The government exclude any postponement of payment of the kilometer tax
-- Despite four days of blockade and persistence of technical failures... The Walloon Minister for the Budget, Christophe Lacroix, said in an interview broadcast on RTBF April 7, it excluded any postponement of the commencement of collection of the kilometer charge for lorries ... He also argued that the kilometer tax "is above all a way to get paid 88% of foreign carriers that pass throughin our country." Fally, the Minister invited the Belgian carriers to "prepare a list of claims" ... These ads intervened after the lifting of roadblocks that have accompanied the implementation of the tax, on 1 April. From April 3 to 6, the thousands of trucks blocked highways thirty in Belgium , mainly in Wallonia to protest against the implementation of the kilometer tax for heavy vehicles... Jan Jambon, the federal Minister of the Interior, finally ended the movement demanding the lifting of roadblocks. April 6 evening, hundreds of Belgian police and ordered the carriers to provide access at the border between France and Belgium, under penalty of confiscation of the vehicle, the withdrawal of their driving license and a guard view to twelve hours. The threat quickly took effect as soon 18h blockages have gradually dissolved...
(Photo: Truckers and farmers block Belgian roads in tax protest) -- Brussels, Belgium - WK Transport - 12 April 2016Labels: mileage tax, trucking industry news Europe
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