Bridget McKenzie says the Coalition believes in principle that electric vehicle drivers should pay a road use charge and will consider one in government, while insisting it will not be a "tax".
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It’s all about supporting fossil fuel use. McKenzie on Insiders this morning talking about “equity” and “choice”, but it’s all about slowing the transition.
It's a way to punish the left, apart from some fools who own brand new Teslas, electric cars mostly are owned by people who care for the planet. Mostly lefties.
Well if anyone can find a way round it will be the architect of the sports rorts scandal..also just tax mining and tech companies and encourage EV's which lower pollution across the board
One could put a tax on tyres especially on weight ratings to cover the cost of road maintenance if they are trying to replace fuel surcharges that do the same thing. The more you use the roads and the heavier the vehicle the more it would cost.
But i suspect the Lnp are just fossil fools
20 years ago a farmer/tradie got by with a small light ute/van. I can't see why monster trucks are needed now (mostly look like they are not used as trade vehicles anyway). Taxing over sized and over weight monsters (dumped here) would encourage lighter more economic vehicles.
Problem is Australians tend to buy their vehicles to cater to the most extreme use like once a year towing their monster caravan or want a vehicle with a range of 1000 kilometres for that once in a decade trip outback.
The fact they escape luxury tax and are tax deductible makes it attractive
There are ways governments change behaviours, both positive and negative. Prohibitive duties on monster trucks, efficiency standards, encourage farm/on-country glamping experiences, cheaper regional air travel, ...it's an endless list. It just requires an intelligent, motivated government.
But regional and rural people get punished by a road user tax or tyre tax etc. Those same people also fund city people’s rail, light rail, buses etc and never get to have those benefits.
The vast majority of damage to roads comes from heavy commercial vehicles.
Agreed although All tyres pollute by putting micro plastics into environment.
The point of many taxes is to place punitive measures on things that have negative affects on the community particularly health outcomes if you look at tobbaco & alcohol.
Tyre tax would be a fairer user pays for the cost
Let’s not call it criminal but free market entrepreneurship in a time of prohibition by taxation.
I don’t smoke but if smokers had to cover their own medical expenses for smoking related disease would probably be a bigger disincentive.
Think about how often you replace tyres and what the tax would need to be to cover the equivalent of fuel excise for that same period.
Then consider what a low income earner would do when faced with a multi thousand $ cost.
They’ll be driving on bald tyres for as long as possible. A danger to all.
Maybe just apply the tax to heavy vehicles that can claim it as a tax deductiblity. Or maybe we drop these silly taxes altogether and just charge transnation that pay zero taxes a turnover tax like a gst on income
The reality of two thirds of corporations that don’t pay tax and have not for decades is if they weren’t making a profit they would have gone broke long ago
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But i suspect the Lnp are just fossil fools
The fact they escape luxury tax and are tax deductible makes it attractive
The vast majority of damage to roads comes from heavy commercial vehicles.
The point of many taxes is to place punitive measures on things that have negative affects on the community particularly health outcomes if you look at tobbaco & alcohol.
Tyre tax would be a fairer user pays for the cost
I don’t smoke but if smokers had to cover their own medical expenses for smoking related disease would probably be a bigger disincentive.
Then consider what a low income earner would do when faced with a multi thousand $ cost.
They’ll be driving on bald tyres for as long as possible. A danger to all.