Haulier tax law change urged

The Department of Environment has confirmed it is looking at “urgent legislative change” following a recent court decision that has changed the amount hauliers are liable to pay to tax their vehicles.

On October 21, the Court of Appeal ruled that a truck’s trailer is not a separate taxable unit, following a case between the Director of Public Prosecutions and Perennial Freight.

Perennial had appealed against prosecution for ‘undertaxation’ of an articulated truck.