Motor tax plans stalled
TREASURY will not bring forward plans for an annual motor tax to help the Environment Department fund its beleaguered transport strategy.
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Environment had hoped that T&R would do so in an effort to raise £6m. which could fund the strategy, but declined to do so itself because it believed it would assist Treasury in trying to diversify the tax base.
While T&R still believes this would be a better way of funding the strategy, it will not be asking the States for the tax to be re-introduced.
Minister Gavin St Pier, pictured, said this was the wrong debate for such a proposal.
