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At the budget in March, the Chancellor of the Exchequer agreed that boaters can continue to use red diesel with the customary declarations on tax split. The Treasury held a consultation at the end of 2020, and NABO responded as we reported in the October NN. We are delighted that the Treasury have listened to us. NABO has been campaigning on this for more than 20 years! Our persistence has paid off at last.NABO Home
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EA Navigation Consultation - boat registration charges proposals from 1 Jan 2022
EA have advised us as follows:
We are pleased to announce that our Navigation charges consultation is now live. The consultation will be running for 8 weeks, until 16 September 2021.
You will find the Navigation charges consultation page, together with all the relevant information on Citizen Space - https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/environment-and-business/nav-boat-reg-charge. We do encourage you and your members to respond online.
NABO News on line
NABO News back copies are available to read by non members. See this link for the library here
The latest colour edition of NABO News is only available online to NABO members who have registered on the website. Members can log in and then open the pdf file on the Members/NABO News latest edition menu link. That gives NABO members advance access to our flagship publication, even before it drops through the letterbox.
If you are not a member, you can peruse the contents here and see what you are missing.
CRT Terms and Conditions - NABO letter to members
As many of you will be aware there has recently been yet another revision of the Canal and River Trust’s (CRT) Terms and Conditions (T&C’s) for private boaters. This latest publication follows their admission of ‘errors’ in previous drafts which has now led to two of the more contentious conditions being removed. There are now, we think, three differing versions of this document in circulation with the potential to cause much confusion. For our purposes here we are referring to the document referenced by CRT as 15.6.21 v.2.
As many of you are also aware, NABO Council has been carefully scrutinising these developments, engaging with CRT both during the consultation period through to the present. As a result of NABO’s comments significant changes were made to the readability of the Terms and Conditions. The document has been reworded to make it easier to understand but there remain some parts that could be improved. On the Privacy Policy and schedule, many GDPR issues are corrected but the readability remains poor. The document has been reworded to make it easier to understand but there remain some parts that could be improved.