Budget 2013: Tax allowances could drive corporate fleets away from greener cars

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Trade body warns denying tax breaks to companies leasing green cars could force up emissions, despite boost for firms purchasing electric vehicles

Fleet managers have warned the George Osborne's failure to change an obscure capital allowance for business cars in yesterday's Budget could inadvertently drive up transport emissions, undermine the growing...

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