* Finland - Bus companies fear car tax changes could hurt business
Environmental groups take differing views on changesHelsinki,Uusimaa,Finland -The Helsingin Sanomat -7 Nov 2007: -- The Finnish Bus and Coach Association fears that the government's plans to cut the automobile tax could lead to a sharp decline in the use of bus transport... Heikki Kääriäinen, Managing Director of the Bus and Coach Association, feels that buses and private cars are the biggest competitors in daily commuter transport, and that in that respect, the proposed tax reform is a bad idea... Kääriäinen notes that after the previous cut in the car tax, in 2003, numbers of bus passengers declined immediately... Passenger numbers have since recovered, but Kääriäinen believes that the consequences of the new change in car taxation will be more severe than those of the previous one... (Photo from www.helsinki-vantaa.fi: Buses from Helsinki metropolitan area)
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