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Showing posts with label Petrol tax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petrol tax. Show all posts

Sunday, August 17, 2025

David Farrar: Petrol tax goneburger


Chris Bishop announced:

Cabinet has agreed to a series of important legislative changes to enable the transition of New Zealand’s 3.5 million light vehicles to paying for our roading network through electronic road user charges, rather than petrol tax, says Transport Minister Chris Bishop.

Friday, August 18, 2023

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Electric vehicle owners should be paying to fix our potholes, as well.

I think it’s time to the end the freeloading of the EV owners, don’t you? 

The big news from the Chris Hipkins government is that they’re raising petrol tax again.

That's right... they were just giving us a discount on the tax 2 months ago and now they are going in the opposite direction.

From next year they’ll start hiking phasing in 12 cents a litre hike