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Jan 25 2018

Move to road user charging by 2030, demands ACE

The government must introduce dynamic road user charging in the UK over the long-term – starting in 2030, according to the Association for Consultancy and Engineering in a new report entitled “Funding Roads for the Future”.

 

And it warned that because of the complexity of introducing a new road taxation model in the UK, the government must take the initial steps now to implement such a scheme.

 

And in the meantime, the government must introduce reforms to Vehicle Excise Duty and Heavy Goods Vehicle Road User Levy to ensure these taxes raise sufficient revenue for the National Roads Fund from 2020-21, it said pointing out that reforms to VED must ensure sufficient revenue is raised in light of the expected significant uptake of zero-emission vehicles in the next decade.

 

The ACE also wants reforms to HGV Road User Levy to remove offsets against Vehicle Excise Duty for UK-registered vehicles and introduce a dynamic per-distance charge (with a range of variables) instead of the current per-day charge.

 

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Source: LOGISTICS MANAGER