No help for gravel-tax victims
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• Tipper operators suffering a sharp downturn in work as a result of a new green tax will get no government help for at least a year, says the British Aggregates Association. A new round of consultation about the £1.60/tonne aggregates levy will not finish until March, making changes in next year's Budget extremely untkely And BAA leaders warn that the main issue surrounding the tax—the slump in demand for secondary aggregates—has been specifically excluded fro the consultation document pul lished by Customs and Exci5 last week.
Huge stock-piles of theE low-value products, traditional used in foundations and roa building, are said to be buildir up because the levy has killE off demand (CM5-11Dec).
BAA secretary Pet( Huxtable says some seconder aggregates now have no yak at all because of the levy and E have effectively become wast,