1 MP Backs Biodiesel Tax Break Campaign
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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 gain from a 20p differential but that is because of end next April.

The St Ives MP, who leads the Lib Dem Environment Team, has actually been meeting the UK sustainable biodiesel alliance.

Mr George said "a number of small companies in Cornwall presently make cash from used cooking oil".

He included: "In order to be able to get this sort of industry going it does need simply a little bit of lift which comes in the form of tax inescapable."

Biodiesel is a mix of standard diesel, rapeseed and veggie oils.

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