Thus, brewing up to another stridssak following the controversial plastic bag tax on £. 1.50 to be introduced from March next year.
The merchants of free goods on airstrip in Oslo, Stavanger, Kristiansand, Bergen and Trondheim will not be charged the fee.
Håkon Fjeld -Hansen is chief of Travel Retail Norway, which controls most of the airport sales. He believes the company simply will not be allowed to charge for plastic bags.
What can they really charge for?
– Our operations are strictly regulated by the government and where in detail described what we can charge for. There are no shopping bags of plastic mentioned, and it involves our opinion that we can not sell the item. If the government would otherwise have our agreement redefined says Fjeld-Hansen.He said that if tax-free shops still being forced to pay the tax of NOK 1,50 per bag from March, it will mean that the company must take off own crate to pay into the millions fee represents for the company.
– We will not have any chance to recoup this expense from customers so our license is now. Increasing prices of the way to cover the fee of the question, says Fjeld-Hansen.
Will seek exemption
He said that if the Ministry of Finance decides that bag fee shall also payable in connection with the free trade in airports, will Travel Retail Norway to seek exemption from this scheme on the duty-free shops on departure.
– We will consider it unfair that people who are going out of country to answer for a Norwegian tax in a free shop, says Fjeld-Hansen.
The new fee is a result of the settlement wing parties agreed in Parliament Friday. There goes the Government into a plastic bag fee of 1 dollar and 50 cents per. bag. This will provide 900 million dollars extra in the Treasury next year and about 1.25 billion a year in subsequent years.
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