The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers association in Donegal has described changes to the motor tax system on commercial vehicles as a D4 tax.
Spokesperson Malcolm Thompson says the new measure aimed at the enforcement of the law prohibiting owners of commercial vehicles using them for social and private purposes, it out of touch with reality.
From now on owners of commercial vehicle will have to make a declaration at a garda barracks that the vehicle will be used exclusively for business purposes.
Malcolm Thompson says Minister John Gormley is not living in the real world:
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