In a message dated 95-10-02 09:19:17 EDT, you write:
>What's the chances that this will eventually get rejected?
>(I believe it came from the Electronic Telegraph)
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>From sb(at)tadpole.co.uk Mon Oct 2 09:35:31 1995
>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 09:39:25 +0100
>From: Sean Bartram <sb(at)tadpole.co.uk>
>To: dmw(at)tadpole.co.uk
>Subject: Old cars
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>ANY CAR more than 25 years old will be exempt from vehicle excise duty
>under a
>Government move to help owners of "classic cars". The plan,
>which will outrage the Green lobby, has been agreed between
>the Department of Transport and the Treasury, despite
>opposition from John Gummer, the Environment Secretary.
>
From what I recall reading in the various English classic car magazines,
didn't the original proposal seek to collect excise tax on EVERY car,
regardless of whether it was on the road or not?
Sounded about as bad as what they've been up to in California for the last
several years.
Dick Sanders
Seattle, Washington
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