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Scrap your car for free bus travel

Green Cars News

A bus company on the Isle of Wight has launched its own version of the car scrappage scheme, offering motorists free travel on its buses for a year in exchange for their old banger. The government funded Car scrappage is a scheme that does nothing to tackle the fact that we have to encourage people to use their cars less.

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The Budget 2009 - working towards sustainable transport

Green Cars News

Increasing company car benefit in kind tax in the future for all but the lowest carbon cars. Introducing a vehicle scrappage scheme. From April 2010 anyone buying a new car will pay a different rate of vehicles tax in the first year of registration. Company Car Tax. Confirming future increases in fuel duty. P11d value**.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric NZ

Scrappage schemes . The OECD has conducted analysis on the components of effective ‘scrappage schemes’. Role of public and private sector fleets – including using the tax system . We spend billions of dollars annually on importing fossil fuels. The scheme must target older vehicles that are still currently in use.