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First registration duty 'is a self-defeating tax'

MOTORISTS remain an easy target 'cash cow' under Guernsey's blighted transport strategy, according to campaigners, who have now warned that one of the newly-agreed key funding elements is flawed and 'self-defeating'.

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Guernsey Motor Trades Association president Dave Beausire, pictured, has also attacked Environment for a lack of consultation and notice given to the public, over its eleventh hour amendments to its own report on the funding for the transport strategy.

It means the now-approved funding plan, altered through one of Environment's last-minute amendments, is now made up of bus fares, an increased bus subsidy from Treasury and first registration duty linked to emissions, with a higher cap.

Mr Beausire said the motorists, in general, remained the real victim of the strategy.

'In the strategy there is absolutely nothing in it for the people paying for it, the motorist,' he said.

'One thing we said a long time ago was the motorist is being used as a cash cow and we have been repeatedly proved 100% right. The motorist is a total cash cow.'

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