Double Road Taxes and Import Duties
In the early years bus companies with cross border routes were hard hit by the total non-cooperation between transport authorities, north and south. As a result they had to pay road tax both north and south as well paying import duties on buses that were used in cross border services. Some bus operators went to the courts to challenge the inequity of this double taxation. The anomaly was not sorted out satisfactorily till the 1950s. The letter bellow indicates that Maurice Cassidy was considering taking a test case to the courts in 1931 and that the Londonderry and Lough Swilly and Letterkenny Railways company had already engaged in a legal challenge which it appears to have lost..