DIESEL TAX RATES
November 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLPOLITICAL pressure has been piled onto the British government by the European Union (EU) over commercial diesel tax rates, after ministers passed a directive allowing Member States to charge lower duty on diesel sold to hauliers than to car drivers. Part of a comprehensive reform of EU energy taxation rules, the additional flexibility replaces an existing insistence that national governments charge the same rate to all road users. The European Commission said that the change was designed to "limit the distortions of competition with which road ...
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