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Victorian electric car owners win High Court challenge against controversial ZLEV tax.

... I wonder if that means they'll refund what we've paid already? πŸ€”

amp.abc.net.au/article/1029899

#EV #ElectricVehicles #Australia #auspol

18 Oct 2023 at 6:52 | Open on aus.social
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David "Dave" Treloar

@kudra

I'll say it once again for the stupid among you, if you don't pay taxes to keep the roads drivable, then don't complain when because your non petrol road use they turn to crap.

Think roads are made of non fossil elements, think again, all fossil, and the repairs - the same, even plastic is made from fossil, it's an oil by-product.

So, tell me again why you shouldn't pay the same taxes, and justify it with reality.

(yeah, you can't, but enjoy the win, it is likely not for long).

#EV

18 Oct 2023 at 6:57 | Open on aus.social
Kudra :maybe_verified:

@trelord75 I don't have a problem paying a road user tax, but it should be levied on ALL road users, at a federal level, and based on WEIGHT, not fuel used. So those ridiculous utes that just keep getting heavier and heavier are appropriately taxed. Carbon price on petrol should be instigated as well, take the petrol excise out altogether and just make a road user charge for all vehicles, it was annoying having to submit my odo, but why shouldn't everyone, not just EVs??

The average ute in Australia is now 2 tonne. My Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV weighs about 1.2 tonne, around HALF that of the average ute!!

When ​ute​ owners stop getting tax breaks and start paying road user charges AND a carbon tax for filling the air with far more poisonous exhaust fumes than they need to get where they need to go, that will be a good day.

#EV #ElectricVehicles #Australia #Utes #zlev

@trelord75 I don't have a problem paying a road user tax, but it should be levied on ALL road users, at a federal level, and based on WEIGHT, not fuel used. So those ridiculous utes that just keep getting heavier and heavier are appropriately taxed. Carbon price on petrol should be instigated as well, take the petrol excise out altogether and just make a road user charge for all vehicles, it was annoying having to submit my odo, but why shouldn't everyone, not just EVs??

18 Oct 2023 at 7:13 | Open on aus.social
JP

@kudra @vwdasher how upset will they be when the response is to have the federal government do it instead.

18 Oct 2023 at 8:19 | Open on aus.social
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