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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: Extortionist tax would be applied to kilometres travelled rather than fuel Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:02 pm | |
| A Coalition-commissioned inquiry has plumped for a big-brother style "eye in the sky" applying tax to kilometres travelled rather than on fuel.
Asked by Treasurer Joe Hockey to investigate impediments to infrastructure funding, the Productivity Commission has zeroed in on fuel excise, originally designed to fund roads but shrinking each year in real terms because of a decision by the Howard government to freeze rather than index the rate shortly after it introduced the goods and services tax.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/drivers-may-pay-per-kilometre-20140312-34n3e.html#ixzz2vnQvGd00 |
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