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Absolute injustice
hilip Parker of Transport 2000 (Sound off, CM18-24 June), states that road freight effectively receives hidden subsidies as taxes paid do not cover the costs of road maintenance, accidents and pollution.
Please can he publish the absolute figures of taxes paid by hauliers and the absolute costs, because I am bored with this statement being made so often with no numbers to back it up. Those of us in the haulage industry find it unjust that a huge portion of our revenue goes to the Government in tax. There are few other industries, apart from those in the leisure market such as alcoholic drinks and tobacco, that are as heavily taxed for doing an honest day's work.
To suggest the taxes levied from smaller haulage companies should be recycled to provide lower rates and taxes for other businesses is at the very least offensive. It is time some of the academics did a week's hard graft within a small haulage company before dreaming up such ideas.
John Allsop, Edward Allsop, Mill Hill, Leicester.