MP backs biodiesel tax break campaign
29 June 2011
Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George is backing a campaign to keep tax breaks for companies who produce biodiesel.
Producers converting cooking oil into biodiesel presently take advantage of a 20p differential however that is due to end next April.
The St Ives MP, who leads the Lib Dem Environment Team, has been fulfilling with the UK sustainable biodiesel alliance.
Mr George stated "a number of small services in Cornwall currently generate income from used cooking oil".
He included: "In order to have the ability to get this type of market going it does need simply a bit of lift which comes in the kind of tax inevitable."
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