What rubbish , froggie. All road-workers will have 1hour 40minutes a week ballet training for State and Fed Ballet Man-of-the-Year with winner going to the overseas ballet company of his choice., but subsidies for the ballet not 1pc of the population can even attend..
The interesting and chequered past history of fuel tax in Australia.I don't think that's quite the point.
A mine can claim the full cost of fuel as a tax deduction, PLUS they get back the excise that they pay on diesel fuel, the reason for that is (they say) that diesel fuel excise is allegedly going towards roads which the miners don't use, but as has been discussed that is nonsense as the diesel fuel excise just goes to general revenue from which everyone benefits.
Basic problem I see with it is much the same as bundling network charges into electricity pricing. It simply creates an economic incentive, which may become an imperative, to maximise volume sales in order to balance the budget.The interesting and chequered past history of fuel tax in Australia.
The issue surely is to ponder why diesel etc is taxed at a higher rate than pretty much any other product except alcohol and tobacco?
That's the real issue. No other normal business input has a special high tax applied to it and of direct relevance there's no comparable rate of tax on other energy sources including other fossil fuels. Given that diesel as a means of generating power is cleaner than coal, and integrates far better with renewables, it seems a tad odd.
The only rational explanation I've ever been able to see is that it's effectively an import tax given that coal and gas are locally produced but oil is substantially imported. Fair enough, I can see some logic in that, but then we've dropped tariffs on everything else so it's rather inconsistent to retain that approach only with petroleum fuels and then not all such fuels but only some.
Go forward to sometime in the 2030's and fuel excise ends up as, in practice, a tax on the poor. Once EV's become half the vehicle fleet, those paying that excise will mostly be the poorer half of society. A few exceptions but in general that will be the case. That'll give politicians an interesting dilemma........
There will be a lot of money to be made in the future, having a a BIG battery on a flat bed truck, ready to give people a $50 fast charge to get them mobile again.
That would keep the dual cab utes popular.Or people carrying around petrol gen sets to charge them up when they get stuck.
The Government of the day, will just introduce a new tax, increase an existing tax, or a combination of both to compensate for the loss fuel excise
The bigger problem IMO, is the collateral damage in the economy, due to the loss of ice engine and the associated work/parts/ consumables related to their upkeep. They are very labour intensive, high maintenance and compared to electrical motors extremely complicated.
I think this is why many billionaire capitalists are starting to openly discuss the idea of a Universal Basic Income.
That's 5% of income , $1hour basic.GST in half.
Maybe it would achieve the same thing by cutting the GST in half. This would require less mechanisms than a UBI and therefore would be more efficient.
so that is in effect an incentive on high usage, excise at least is based on usage, and the more cars on the road be they ICE or EV is not really an aim is it?Shouldn't be too hard to find excise amount per year that a driver pays. Driver expenses for Tax are well-known. Add amount to EV rego. Enter card number and click.
Absolutely , the more mileage the garage mechanic reports from the speedometer kms for rego, the more the driver pays . He may even offer double tax to Scomo . triple , heck blow the expense.incentive on high usage,
The excise rate on diesel is he same as ULP , 41c per litre.
The castration process has many steps and should only be done by a person with training and experience with pigs. Male pigs are castrated using a disinfected surgical knife. A trained worker or veterinarian holds the pig and makes an incision above each testicle. The testicle is pushed through the scrotal sac.I
I'd rather neutralise government so far as possible.
The issue surely is to ponder why diesel etc is taxed at a higher rate than pretty much any other product except alcohol and tobacco?
That's the real issue. No other normal business input has a special high tax applied to it and of direct relevance there's no comparable rate of tax on other energy sources including other fossil fuels. Given that diesel as a means of generating power is cleaner than coal, and integrates far better with renewables, it seems a tad odd.
The only rational explanation I've ever been able to see is that it's effectively an import tax given that coal and gas are locally produced but oil is substantially imported. Fair enough, I can see some logic in that, but then we've dropped tariffs on everything else so it's rather inconsistent to retain that approach only with petroleum fuels and then not all such fuels but only some.
Go forward to sometime in the 2030's and fuel excise ends up as, in practice, a tax on the poor. Once EV's become half the vehicle fleet, those paying that excise will mostly be the poorer half of society. A few exceptions but in general that will be the case. That'll give politicians an interesting dilemma........
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