Толлы будут стоять теперь и на обычных дорогах

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Cabinet approves more road tolls in ?500m cost-saving plan

AN EXTENSION of charges to national roads, extra levies on those who do not pay their motor tax online and a major reduction in the number of city and county managers, are among a series of proposals aimed at saving over ?500 million in the State’s 34 local authorities.

The measures, contained in a report by the Local Government Efficiency Review Group, and approved by the Cabinet at its meeting in Farmleigh on Wednesday, will be published today.


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The group has also recommended that tolling charges be extended from motorways to national roads. It has argued this would be consistent with Government policy on the environment by incentivising road users to use other transport. It would also allow a stream of revenue for local councils to invest in local roads.

While the group has said the distribution of the tolling booths should be equitable, placing them on national roads as well as motorways would be seen as controversial and politically unpopular. The report has also suggested that a handling fee be introduced for processing motor tax payments that are made in person or by post rather than online. This, the report concluded, would recognise the much higher staff costs of manual processing.

It has also called for an end to the “off-the-road” facility in respect of motor tax, which allows car owners to self-declare vehicles as not