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Road Toll levy at ports of entry: This has been proposed by the DfT to be a levy that cannot be rescinded by the courts in the same way as pevious attempts to impose one have been as a 'restraint on trade within the EU'. To do this it needs must be levied by central government as a Road Tax which must be paid by all drivers on UK roads. UK registered vehicles already pay road tax, so it could perhaps have been levied and paid into the DVLA by foreign registered vehicles that do not normally pay UK Road tax at ports of entry and would have had to be proportional to the amount of time/distance spent on UK roads by the foreign driver. However, there has been a Govt consultation on this issue (did you take part in it Alexander, especially as you are so interested in this subject and have thought deeply about it in order to come up with a comprehensive and well constructed proposal on the future of the port and possibility for regeneration locally?) and EU rules mean that the levy will have to be charged on all freight vehicles using UK roads (both UK registered vehicles and foreign vehicles). This means that the scheme will be futher complicated by providing UK registered vehicles with a rebate on their road tax to compensate for the additional charge. The issue is then further complicated by EU rules on 'State Aid' which UK freight firms could come a cropper on as a result of the government rebate.
Road Toll levy at ports of entry (revenue): Best estimates indicate that such a levy will raise approx. £24m (gross) per annum.
Road Toll levy at ports of entry (admin costs): Because of the complexity involved in gathering the levy without transgressing EU treaty laws on barriers to trade and travel, it is anticipated that administration costs for the levy will be in the region of £4m.
Cost of Highway maintenance (just Kent): annual cost is in the region of £26.5m just for routine maintenance, safety and road management costs another £15m approx. So total for roads and highways in Kent alone is £41.5m.
The Road Toll levy will go to central government funds and be redistributed from there. If it is redistributed to areas proportionately in relation to the volume of foreign registered vehicles using their roads, then Kent will get approx. £1.2m per year from this fund. That is for the whole of Kent, Alexander - £1.2m additional. If we factor in inflation and take into account the reduction in budgets that is ongoing over the next several years, almost the entire amount is swallowed up by inflation in costs (using the Govt target figure for the BoE on inflation as a guide). Where are your millions for regeneration Alexander?
KCC have indeed requested a vehicle landing charge for vehicles coming into Dover; did you actually read the entire document "growth without gridlock" Alexander? because the document also talks about how and where new road developments are needed, I have a copy of it here on my desk top if you would care to read it in full as I have had to. The KCC request will have to go through the DfT which, as you can see above, has already gone through its own consutation on the issue, the results of which are now known. Any and every port/region specific levy on foreign registered freight and tourist traffic in this country has been challenged in the courts by the freight, manufacturing and tourism industries and has had to be withdrawn.