Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Car weight tax.

Kristina Keneallys fifty billion dollar transport plan for Sydney makes no mention of just where the finance will come from to bring it to fruition - except for a new tax that will provide a $ 500 million dividend.

The transport plan will benefit the residents of Sydney, but this new tax will be levied on every car owner in this state. People who live in the most distant village and never visit Sydney will still be lumbered with the tax man's hand in their pocket every year at car registration time.

A tax of between $ 5 and $ 30 per car will apply - on a weight basis. Cars below 975 kilos will be exempt. Obviously this has been carefully selected because vehicles below that weight are scarcer than hen's teeth !

There is just one glaring little worry that must occupy the mind's of this state's car owners.

Given the track record of the present government in making transport arrangements that conclude with cancellation - and the statistics are fourteen such announcements in fifteen years in office - what odds that this one will also fall by the wayside ?

And what odds that when that cancellation occurs - the cancellation does not include removal of the weight tax ?

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