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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8291

6 September 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation
Commission due to adopt strategy for harmonising car tax

Brussels, 05/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - In the next few days the European Commission is expected to publish a Communication by Commissioner Frits Bolkestein, suggesting the gradual scrapping of car registration taxes for private vehicles over five years. The adoption of the text was blocked in July on the request of Commissioner Neil Kinnock (see Europe of 27 July, p.8 and 25 July, p.10). The Communication suggests that as a first step, car registration taxes in ten Member States should be...

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