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Jun 20, 2012

TAXES * Australia

* Australia - Truckers must crank up before carbon tax

(TAX INCENTIVE: Ferrier Hodgson partner Brendan Richards says there will be indirect costs to all businesses from the carbon tax, but it is an opportunity for those who have a handle on their business)
Adelaide,South Australia -Stock Journal by Catherine Miller -20 Jun, 2012: -- Now is the time to measure and analyse the expected cost increases of the carbon tax on your business... That was the message from Ferrier Hodgson (Photo above), partner and head of transport and logistics Brendan Richards at last weekend's Livestock and Rural Transporters Association (LRTA) of South Australia annual conference, to an industry which already works on tight profit margins... He said that those who did nothing to pass cost increases onto their customers risked having all their profit disappear overnight when the tax is introduced in less than a month... He said the industry was focusing on the threat of a 6.85 cents a litre reduction on fuel tax credits from July 1, 2014, which was estimated to have a 1 per cent cost impact... But of much greater concern was the effect of the carbon tax from July 1... The federal government had priced carbon at $23 a tonne - the most expensive in the world and up to three or four times other nations' schemes... He said the Australian Food and Grocery Council had estimated the carbon tax would have a 3.5pc cost increase across the board... Based on a $3 a kilometre rate with a 9c/km profit after costs, many transport operators were working on just a 3pc profit margin...

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Oct 28, 2010

Carbon Tax * UK - The government renamed and delayed carbon reduction plan

The Carbon Reduction Commitment

London,UK -The Financial Times -October 27 2010: -- Committing to austerity in the UK means breaking other commitments. Last week the government took Labour’s already renamed and delayed carbon reduction plan – the Carbon Reduction Commitment – and effectively killed it. Under the original rules the 5,000 businesses involved – with annual power bills of about £500,000 each – would pay a tax of £12 per tonne of carbon emitted, compete with each other to be the most efficient energy users, and trade associated permits. The best operators would receive a refund greater than the amount they had paid...   Now, renamed the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, it will merely take the money raised – perhaps about £3.5bn over four years – and stash it in the government’s coffers. Sure, the Treasury needs cash, but it is baffling that the unique competition-based mechanism has been junked. As the scheme was revenue-neutral, keeping it would have made no difference to the chancellor. Now, an all-stick-no-carrot approach will raise costs for business, while killing the incentive for a company to reduce its environmental footprint...   (Picture from static.guim.co.uk: petrol)

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Dec 14, 2009

CARBON TAX * Canada - Biodiesel reduces B.C.’s one

With the addition of renewable fuels to B.C.’s diesel and gasoline pools in 2010, the provincial government has decided to relax the controversial carbon tax by 5 percent

Victoria,BC,CAN -Today's Trucking -11 Dec 2009: ... On Jan. 1, 2010 the carbon tax rate on diesel drops from 4.04 cents per litre to 3.84 cents per litre and on gasoline from 3.51 cents per litre to 3.33 cents per litre ... On July 1, 2010 the carbon tax rate will increase to 5.11 cents per litre (adjusted from 5.38 cents per litre) for diesel and 4.45 cents per litre (from 4.68 cents per litre) for gasoline... The government determined the annual rate increase when the carbon tax first became effective and it will continue until July 2012. Yearly increases for diesel, adjusted for the renewable fuels, will be: July 1, 2011 --¬ 6.39 cents per litre, instead of 6.73 cents per litre; and July 1, 2012 --¬ 7.67 cents per litre, instead of 8.07 cents per litre... While the tax reduction is welcomed by the trucking community, the B.C. Trucking Association continues to advocate that the government return a portion of the carbon tax to the industry in the next budget, in the form of incentives to encourage wider adoption of fuel-efficient equipment and technologies... (Photo by Dave Arnston/Bloomberg News)

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Dec 12, 2009

CARBON TAX * Ireland - Lenihan confirms hauliers worst fears

Dublin,Ireland -HGV Ireland -December 10, 2009: -- Transport Minister, Brian Lenihan, confirmed the haulage industry’s worst fears yesterday, when he introduced a Carbon Tax on diesel in his Budget 2010 speech to the Dail... The new Carbon Tax, which came into force at Midnight will add an extra 4.9 cent, including VAT to the cost of a litre of diesel... The new Carbon tax will add significantly to hauliers’ operating costs, and feed into costs of distribution... (Picture from jstservices: Heavy haulage truck)


* Ireland - IRHA slams Carbon Tax

Dublin,Ireland -HGV Ireland -11 Dec 2009: -- The Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA) has slammed the Government’s planned Carbon Tax, which wwas unveiled in Budget 2010 yesterday... “The Government is missing the point and appears to be motivated more by a desire to create a new mechanism for collecting tax than by any genuine commitment to reducing the levels of carbon emissions,” said Vincent Caulfield, President of the IRHA... “Introducing a blunt fuel tax is a misguided, half-baked attempt to address the root cause of carbon emissions. Short of refusing to move freight, hauliers are not in a position to effect a reduction in freight movement or to influence the distances over which freight must be carried,” he added...


* Ireland: Budget 2010 – A lost opportunity according to ISME

Dublin,Ireland -HGV Ireland -December 10, 2009: -- The Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association ISME has described Budget 2010 as a lost opportunity, and condemned the introduction of the controversial Carbon Tax... An ISME spokesman said the Budget failed to recognise the plight of small businesses, and was bereft of stimulus measures to help them remain competitive and keep jobs... The spokesman said the introduction of a Carbon Tax at this stage was wrong, claiming it may end up as an additional tax and may not be revenue neutral as was the initial intention...


* Ireland - CILT gives Carbon Tax guarded welcome

Dublin,Ireland -HGV Ireland -December 10, 2009: -- The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport has given a guarded welcome the introduction of a Carbon Tax by Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, in Budget 2010... President, Paul Mallee, said that while the new tax was a positive step-forward in terms of reducing Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on fossil fuels – and simultaneously generating much-needed revenue for the Government – the new tax may unduly penalise the transport and logistics sector given its heavy reliance on road transport... He commented: “The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport is keenly aware of the need for the transport sector to act responsibly in terms of environmental responsibility, and to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions”...

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Jul 1, 2009

Carbon Tax * Canada - Unpopular carbon tax jumps July 1


Ver mapa más grandeVictoria,BC,CAN -Today's Trucking -30 June 2009: -- You don't have to ask B.C. truckers, who will see the much reviled provincial carbon tax rise from 2.69 cents a liter to 4.04 cents a liter on diesel fuel on July 1 -- an increase of about $20 million for the trucking industry... The carbon tax is intended to rise annually until 2012, when it will reach a whopping 8.07 cents a liter on top of the provincial sales taxes and federal excise taxes that already exist... The B.C. Trucking Association, which is urging members to explain the increase to shippers and customers, has been lobbying for a freeze on the carbon tax, at least until the regional economy recovers... BCTA argues that carbon tax dollars could more usefully be applied to investing in fuel efficient technology that might help small fleets reduce emissions and fuel usage and save enough money to stay profitable... But so far, though, the government has been resistant to the trucking group's suggestion...

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Jun 10, 2009

Taxes * USA - ATA Tells Congress Cap-and-Trade Will Harm Trucking Industry

Arlington,VA,USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -June 9, 2009: -- The American Trucking Associations (ATA) today told a Congressional Committee that a cap-and-trade program would impose significant costs on the trucking industry and American consumers... Hodges explained that provisions in H.R. 2454's cap-and-trade program grant oil refiners 2 percent of the carbon allowances between 2014 and 2016 to help mitigate refinery Greenhouse Gas emissions... The trucking industry believes that mobile sources, such as commercial trucks, should be addressed differently than traditional stationary sources under any proposed carbon reduction regulatory program... In addition to serving as ATA First Vice Chairman, Tommy Hodges, also serves as Chairman of ATA's Sustainability Task Force, which developed a progressive sustainability agenda that will reduce fuel consumption by 86 billion gallons and CO2 emissions by 900 million tons for all vehicles over the next 10 years by: setting governors on new trucks to limit speeds to no more than 65 mph; reducing the national speed limit to 65 mph for all vehicles; reducing engine idling; reducing congestion by improving highways; using more productive truck combinations; supporting national fuel economy standards for trucks; and increasing fuel efficiency by encouraging participation in the U.S. EPA SmartWay(SM) Transport Partnership Program...

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Jan 28, 2009

CARBON TAX * USA - EPA Pick Is ‘Open’ to

Jackson Says She Prefers Cap and Trade

Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics, by Eric Miller -Jan. 19, 2009: -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said she was “open to discussion” of a carbon tax to limit greenhouse gas emissions and would immediately begin a review of the Bush administration’s denial of California’s request to regulate those emissions from automobiles... However, Jackson said, “a carbon tax alone in isolation does not set an eventual goal for actual reduction of global warming,” and she told a Senate panel that President Barack Obama favored a cap-and-trade system... Steven Chu, Obama’s energy secretary, also said he supported Obama’s preference for a cap-and-trade program over a carbon tax...

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Jan 21, 2009

NEW ADMINISTRATION * USA

* Obama administration to inherit EOBR controversy

Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -January 20, 2009: -- As DC gets a makeover, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has been watching what some call “midnight regulations,” ones that Bush administration could make happen in the weeks leading up to today, the first day of the new Obama administration... Federal agencies send their proposed regulations to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget for final review... Among the significant regulatory actions related to trucking that did not get the green light during the final week was a mandate for electronic on-board recorders in commercial trucks. It’s a mandate that is unpopular with professional truck drivers and one that has long been opposed by OOIDA... The EOBR rule was sent to the OMB in November 2008, and it is now apparent that it has failed to make it to the table during the last working days of the Bush administration... OOIDA will be watching the OMB and how the EOBR review will fare under the new administration...


* EPA Pick Is ‘Open’ to Carbon Tax. Jackson says She Prefers Cap and Trade

Washington,DC,USA -Transport topics, by Eric Miller -19 Jan 2009: -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Lisa Jackson said she was “open to discussion” of a carbon tax to limit greenhouse gas emissions and would immediately begin a review of the Bush administration’s denial of California’s request to regulate those emissions from automobiles... Steven Chu, Obama’s energy secretary-designate, also said he supported Obama’s preference for a cap-and-trade program over a carbon tax... Clayton Boyce, spokesman for American Trucking Associations, said the federation was opposed to cap-and-trade for mobile sources such as heavy trucks and cars...

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Sep 10, 2008

CARBON TAX * Canada - A threat to Metro jobs

Atlantic director says Liberal proposal jeopardizes 10,000 Hub City jobs, will cost industry another $500M a year

Moncton,CAN -Times & Transcript/Canadaeast News Service, by DAVID SHIPLEY -8 Sept 2008: -- Despite last-minute changes, the federal Liberal Party's proposed Green Shift carbon tax could cost Metro Moncton thousands of jobs in the transportation sector and related industries, says the head of a regional trucking association... "Just in Moncton alone, the carbon tax puts 10,000 jobs in the transportation sector in jeopardy. For Atlantic Canada, we're looking at a 100,000 jobs in the transportation sector, that's all modes of transportation, in jeopardy," said Peter Nelson, executive director of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association... Nelson said the 10,000 jobs stem from direct employment in the trucking business, other transportation industries as well as indirect employment such as mechanics, vehicle sales representatives and administrative support...

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Jun 30, 2008

CARBON TAXES * Canada - Truckers need help

The typical long-haul owner-operator will pay $1,000 this year, $3,000 in 2010 and $6,000 in 2012 in carbon taxes

Vancouver,BC,Canada -The Province -June 29, 2008: -- You may not like the way they hold you up on the road, but trucks are the lifeblood of our economy. They transport the daily necessities that keep everything moving along -- from food to lumber... So if you think you're going to be hit hard by Premier Gordon Campbell's new gas tax, which takes effect this week, spare a thought for those who work in B.C.'s trucking industry. They'll be paying a whole lot more... B.C. Trucking Association CEO Paul Landry says the typical long-haul owner-operator will pay $1,000 this year, $3,000 in 2010 and $6,000 in 2012 in carbon taxes -- offset by just $20 to $50 in income-tax cuts and the $100 carbon-tax cheque per family member... Plus, the trucker will have to pay extra for the fuel for the personal vehicle (or vehicles) he and his family may drive. Does this sound as if it is "revenue neutral"?... It doesn't to us. And the industry will clearly need some government assistance -- especially in using new fuel-saving technologies... (Picture by Jason Payne/The Province - Maureen Bader of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows governments' huge chunk of the tax pie)


* High gas prices fuel gov't windfall - Feds reap $100-million bonanza for every 10-cent hike at the pump

Vancouver,BC,Canada -The Province, by Kent Spencer -June 30, 2008: -- Soaring prices at the pump add up to a tax bonanza worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the federal government, says the Canadian Taxpayers Federation... Ottawa takes in $100 million in additional GST for every 10-cent rise in the price of a litre of gas, says Maureen Bader, the federation's B.C. director... The GST is only one of the taxes that consumers are fuming about as the summer touring season begins... Tomorrow, B.C. introduces its controversial 2.4-cent carbon tax on gas, the first in North America... Prices have changed dramatically since the Liberals announced it on Feb. 19... The new tax means governments will receive 40 cents from every litre sold at the benchmark $1.47 price...

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May 22, 2008

STUDY * Canada - Carbon taxes have little impact on environment

A Carbon tax added to drivers' and truckers' fuel bills would hardly influence consumption

Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -22 May 2008: -- ... The firm is a left-leaning think tank, but even it had to conclude that there's little evidence increasing the price of already-costly fuel would alter consumers' transportation habits, rendering carbon-based taxes ineffective in cutting emissions significantly... Statistical evidence shows that demand for fossil fuels hasn't calmed as the price for fuel has skyrocketed over the last couple years... The Pembina Institute's Matthew Bramley told, that about half of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions comes from large industry, not road transportation... However, the study showed that businesses are more likely to change energy-consumption habits because decisions are made on "hard numbers" and cost increases can lead toward "cleaner energy choices."...

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Mar 14, 2008

CARBON TAX * Canada - STA wants no part of

In the wake of B.C.’s recent carbon tax plan, the Saskatchewan Trucking Association is urging other jurisdictions not to follow suit

Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada -Today's Trucking -14 March 2008: -- ... Al Rosseker, executive director of the STA, says a carbon tax would compound problems for the industry which is already dealing with extremely high fuel costs... While Rosseker admits it is important for the government to deal with environmental issues, there are better ways to go about it than fuel taxes. Rather than punishing fuel use, Rosseker suggests rewarding fuel savings by creating initiatives for more fuel efficient trucks... B.C.’s proposed carbon tax would be revenue-neutral, which would be legislated to ensure all money collected through the tax is redistributed to the public through tax cuts. But the BCTA insists this measure is only beneficial to people who can choose to use less fuel – basically anyone but the trucking industry...

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Feb 29, 2008

TAXES * Canada - Not neutral for trucking industry

British Columbia, Canada -The Vancouver Sun, by Paul Landry: president of the B.C. Trucking Association - February 28, 2008: -- The $1.85-billion carbon tax plan may be revenue neutral for British Columbians overall, but one of the net losers will be the trucking industry... Carbon taxes will cost the trucking industry dearly -- about $1,000 per long-haul truck this year, $3,000 in 2009 and $6,000 in 2012... Offsetting income, business and corporate taxes and a PST exemption on aerodynamic add-ons will help, but won't make up the difference for an industry that relies on diesel fuel to provide its service -- and has few "lower-carbon" choices... Alternative transportation may exist for some people, but not for trucking...


* Federal budget offers few direct benefits to the trucking industry
Ottawa,Ont,CAN -Truck News, by Jan Westell -29 Feb 2008: -- The trucking industry is not overjoyed about the recent federal budget announcement, and neither is another related industry... However, there may be some indirect, eventual benefits, such as $10 million for analysis on biofuel emissions. Yet, the B.C. trucking industry is doubtful there will be any immediate benefit in that regard... The federal budget also announced improvements to the tune of $75 million at Canadian border crossings, specifically to "facilitate trade, travel and commerce," according to the federal budget 2008 document, an efficiency plan that gains the approval from the BCTA... (Video from YouTube, by gangesex -February 01, 2008: "Canada Oilpatch Trucking Sinkings, Wrecks and Recoveries". Maybe you'll recognize some of these! Some photos of frac trucks, bed trucks, wireline trucks, cats, excavators, etc etc all with a strange thing in common.....)

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Feb 22, 2008

Carbon Taxes * Canada - Will hurt the trucking industry

Vancouver,B.C.,CAN -Truck News, by Jan Westell -20 Feb 2008: -- The carbon taxes announced by the BC provincial government yesterday will cost the trucking industry "dearly," according to the president and CEO of the B.C. Trucking Association... Paul Landry measures that cost to be about $1,000 per long-haul truck this year, about $3,000 in 2009 and $6,000 in 2012. Further, the total cost to the industry will be in the tens of millions of dollars this year, potentially rising to hundreds of millions over the next five years......

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