News / UK budget welcomed by British freight, but aviation bemoans "wall of tax"

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For the most part there were audible sighs of relief from much of the UK’s freight and logistics industry in the wake of the latest budget from the country’s coalition government.

The key domestic issue for much of the UK’s freight service providers was inevitably fuel duty – as it has been for at least the last decade, if not longer – and the news that a planned £0.03 per litre fuel duty increase in September has been cancelled was widely ...