Farmers will not accept any further carbon taxes on diesel, says ICMSA
ICMSA deputy president John Comer, in an address to the joint Oireachtas committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture, recalled pre-election assurances to this end made by Taoiseach Enda Kenny. The ICMSA is urging the Government to honour this commitment to not increase the carbon tax on agricultural diesel.
Mr Comer said: “Based on figures contained in the National Recovery Plan for 2012, it would seem that a figure of €220m additional carbon tax may be implemented in 2012. The revised budgetary adjustment figures announced by the minister involving a total tax take of €1.6 billion may actually increase that figure further.
