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DoubleThinkBlog |
Stop taxing petrol
Feb 25 2008, 7:36 PM EST
Why is petrol taxed as such a high rate ?Motorists already are milked for thousands of dollars in taxes, with registration, stamp duty, GST. 42 out of 73 found this valuable. Do you?
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Randall_Berger |
1. RE: Stop taxing petrol
Feb 26 2008, 1:53 AM EST
You really are a crackpot. The reason petrol is taxed is to pay for the incredibly expensive roads that these cars drive on. Traffic management, etc. Without petrol excise, who pays for this? Rego would be thousands! At least petrol is a fair user pays system ... the more you drive, the more you pay. The way you've been spreading your privatisation claptrap amongst these threads, I suspect you would privatise all roads ... right down to suburban streets ... and put e-tags on them? I think you're just a s**t stirrer. 8 out of 24 found this valuable. Do you? |
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2. RE: Stop taxing petrol
Feb 27 2008, 3:30 AM EST
The petrol levy is a regressive tax. It hurts poorer people the most, and also creates a significant barrier to entry for small operators. There's a reason we only have big companies owning all the petrol stations: the government has pushed the small operators out of the market.
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3. RE: Stop taxing petrol
Mar 3 2008, 3:27 AM EST
Petrol excise taxes have actually been frozen at approx 38.5 cents/litre since 2001. The only tax on fuel that is currently growing is the GST (10%) which changes with the base price of fuel. The real reason fuel prices are so high at the moment is due to the high price of oil overseas - recently it's been around the US$100 per barrel mark, whereas as recently as 2004 it was fetching as little as US$30. The strengthening of the Aussie dollar against the USD is actually preventing the bowser price from being a fair bit more.
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4. RE: Stop taxing petrol
Mar 3 2008, 9:49 PM EST
Less money is raised from petrol tax than is spent on roads each year. This amounts to a subsidy of fuel use by about $10 billion per year. Because we do not yet have a carbon tax or cap and trade system, we are also subsidising petrol use by not requiring motorists to pay the external cost (climate change) caused by the use of petrol.
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DoubleThinkBlog |
5. RE: Stop taxing petrol
Mar 3 2008, 11:54 PM EST
No we are not subsidising petrol use. We are heavily taxing it. Expenditure on roads has nothing to do with this fact.The government should get rid of these taxes and stop spending so much on roads. 1 out of 5 found this valuable. Do you? |
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6. RE: Stop taxing petrol
Mar 7 2008, 9:47 PM EST
on the contrary the higher price of petrol in australia leads to the need for a cheaper and more efficient alternative. necessity is the mother of invention and therefore there is higher incentive to create a better alternative, all we need now is the govenment to spend more of the tax trying to find this alternative. and paying tolls to use privately owned roads would cost almost as much
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7. RE: Stop taxing petrol
Mar 7 2008, 9:50 PM EST
"The government should get rid of these taxes and stop spending so much on roads."you obviously dont live in WA, spend any less on the roads and we'll have dirt tracks through the city, although this doesnt really have anything to do with the petrol tax, rather the way the federal government splits the revenue. 2 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you? |
