MP backs biodiesel tax break project
29 June 2011
Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George is backing a project to keep tax breaks for business who produce biodiesel.
Producers converting cooking oil into biodiesel currently benefit from a 20p differential but that is due to end next April.
The St Ives MP, who leads the Lib Dem Environment Team, has actually been consulting with the UK sustainable biodiesel alliance.
Mr George said "a number of little businesses in Cornwall currently earn money from used cooking oil".
He included: "In order to be able to get this sort of market going it does need simply a bit of lift which is available in the type of tax inescapable."
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