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Electric car tax needs national approach as fuel excise falls: Auto association – Sydney Morning Herald
Motoring and automotive groups want the federal government to combat a potential patchwork of state-based levies on electric cars by introducing a nationally consistent…
But despite a growth in population, the vehicle fleet and total vehicle kilometres driven, revenue from fuel excise continues to decline in real terms as newer, safer vehicles with reduced fuel consumption hit the roads.
Global Electric Transport chief executive Harry Hamann said regardless of which level of government decided to introduce an EV tax based on distance travelled, such a method would be inefficient, inequitable, unfair, and too costly to administer and collect.
There is also the matter…
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