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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Love it. A great fight to be picked.
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The government won't challenge this - it took three years to implement a law in Northern Ireland through its own incompetence.
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The Luxembourg-based court also said it levied a higher fine because London took so long to comply with a judgment dating from 2018.
Under EU law only commercial boats are allowed to use lower taxed fuel, but by dying all marine fuel red it was impossible to distinguish if pleasure craft were paying the full rate, it said.
The UK did not change the law governing marine fuel in Northern Ireland to comply with the EU rules until October 2021.
The court said the UK should be charged a similar fee to that paid by a member state breaching the law.
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https://www.ft.com/content/cc7f950f-...3-c6f93209dede