The carbon tax on fuel is an expensive sore point with loggers and truckers alike. Some forest companies allow for it in rates, others do not.
When asked whether his forest company would recognize the carbon tax in logging and trucking rates, a manager said no – that the tax is ‘revenue neutral.’
To the government, yes, but not to the harvest sector.
When it introduced the carbon tax, government said the revenue would go to creating some tax breaks for industry and reduced income taxes for B.C. residents – it would be revenue neutral.
Loggers and truckers pay that tax and have no way of getting it back through rebates, so it’s a cost of doing business that should be covered in the rates they’re paid.
By Roy Nagel
At every level, our industry is in the midst of the biggest overhaul of process, policy and mindset in decades. There is no ‘normal’ any more, the old ways are gone, and keeping up with change and influencing it are crucial to planning for the future.
This blog is my effort to help steer and push change in directions that will help, in particular, members of the harvest sector and related business communities.
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