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Victoria’s proposed electric car road usage tax gets mixed reactions
The Victorian Government’s plans to tax electric vehicle owners a road usage fee could discourage people from taking up the new technology, an industry group says.
Key points:
- The Victorian Treasurer says the charge will help create a fairer system for taxing road users
- It is expected to raise about $30 million per year and will be introduced in July 2021
- But the Greens and an industry group say it will harm electric vehicle uptake and put Australia behind other developed countries
The new tax was announced by Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas yesterday, in the lead-up to the release of the State Budget.
A 2.5 cent/km charge would apply to electric and other zero-emission vehicles, including hydrogen vehicles, and a 2.0 cent/km charge would…
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