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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
As an EV owner I was aghast at the Victorian Government’s decision to tax EV users when it would seem the rest of the world is doing exactly the opposite.
To be blunt, the reasons for this tax simply are bald faced lies, sheer duplicity and stupidity.
A research paper sponsored by the Federal Parliament itself made it very clear that the primary reason for the indexed fuel excise tax was to purely to raise federal revenue.
They gave secondary reasons as to “recover from road users the costs they impose on society, such as wear and tear on pavements and air pollution” (WTF!)
and goes on to say heavy trucks were actually responsible for most road damage, which state governments already recover via registration charges.
Taxing EV and hybrid users (yes, poor buggers will pay excise and a road tax) is nothing more than a fine for smoking while sticking their heads in the sand about an environmental bushfire that is rapidly approaching.
I have written to my local NSW sate MP. While her response was not encouraging, at least NSW MP’s haven’t been quite so rabid. If you care about our environment please do the same.
Nothing gets a Pollie more motivated that the prospect of losing their seat.
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The issue is that it's revenue and it is being spent to provide us with the life we're accustomed to here in Australia.
By all means, dont charge a tax to EV drivers to encourage more to adopt the tech.........however the money lost on the fuel tax to these EV's will just need to be grabbed some other way via a tax increase or a new tax on something else.
I think we're very lucky to live in a country that provides a very good standard of living......but that standard isn't free.
Sure, cut taxes across the board, it'd be great.........but if that does happen you can expect a much worse standard of living and more out of pocket expenses.