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Road User Charges for EVs Welcome – Fuel Tax Cuts Must Follow
Responding to the Government’s decision to introduce Road User Charges (RUC) for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said:
“The user-pays system for our roads has been eroded with more and more of the National Land Transport Fund (NLTF) being used for areas unrelated to roading while an entire class of road users has been excluded from paying anything at all.
“Applying RUC to EVs removes a senseless distortion that did not reduce transport emissions which are already governed under the capped Emissions Trading Scheme.
“The Government must now commit to redirecting all NLTF funding to road upgrades and maintenance and any surplus should be used to reduce the fuel excise and RUC rates.”
Seven Sharp: How much gas do you really get for your dollar
How much gas do you really get for your dollar: Seven Sharp - 01/07/2014
Yesterday we headed down to Z Energy Vivian Street where TVNZ's Seven Sharp filmed us refunding people's petrol tax. Not a single motorist guessed that for every dollar spent at the pump only 57 cents goes in the car!
The Government has locked in another 3 cent increase on petrol excise for next year - now that we are back in surplus we're calling on the Government to ditch the tax hike.
How much gas do you really get for your dollar: Seven Sharp - 01/07/2014