A leading organization representing companies in charge of fleets is asking the Government to start talks about how it plans to set up motoring taxes and incentives in the future for zero and low emission vehicles.
The ACFO (Association of Car Fleet Operators) is working towards getting the Government to start talks within the Whitehall departments to make sure that motoring tax plans make sense and take into account just how many low carbon vehicles there are available in the world.
A great majority of the coalition government led by David Cameron is concerned about the changes that may be made in terms of motoring taxes and wants to make sure that both parties follow through with their pledge to support a low carbon motoring economy.
The ACFO hopes that the Government may soon define its plans as there is to be a Queen’s Speech on May 25th that announces the Parliamentary legislative programme and later an emergency Budget statement announcement on June 22nd.
While the Labour administration made it clear that company car drivers and businesses would save money by using low emission vehicles, the Government has still not announced if it will still support schemes like the CO2 linked road tax, planned grants for electric hybrid cars, and CO2 linked company car tax.
Julie Jenner, the chairman of the AFCO, stated that with as much work towards developing low emission vehicles as has been done the truly ‘clean’ vehicle is still a while away that will suit the needs of fleet operators thus encouraging the public to purchase them in a much greater volume.
