Car tax increase - Sneak tax hike shows true deceit

IT HAS become characteristic of the Fianna Fáil — Progressive Democrats coalition that honesty and transparency will be sacrificed in the interests of their own political expediency.

The downright deceitful, three-card-trick tactics employed in their election campaign, and exposed almost as soon as they were returned to power by a series of devastating cutbacks, was mirrored once again in the manner in which the latest tax was literally dumped on people.

Instead of being announced in the Budget, the twelve per cent increase in motor tax was by revealed twenty four hours later in a leak to a newspaper to the completely unsuspecting motoring public.