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Andy Burnham should be able to tax Mancs directly to help pay for major transport infrastructure, a thinktank has said.

A new report by pro-devolution thinktank Centre for Cities has called for the government to allow regional mayors like Mr Burnham ‘the right to request’ to impose a new ‘French-style payroll tax’ to fund transport projects.

The tax, first successfully introduced in France’s mustard powerhouse, Dijon, is a ‘local top-up [which] goes directly to funding local infrastructure’, Centre for Cities analyst Rob Johnson explained.

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“An Ultra-Low Emission Zone or Clean Air Zone is based on use, so if you drive in you pay based on your usage,” he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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