As usual they are lying when they say the fee will be based on kilometres and weight. If that was going to be the case commercial traffic would pay 90% of all RUCs collected.
They will instead make it so that 90% are paid by you and me while loaded trucks tear up the roads for a tenth of the cost.
Including EVs?
Yes, thats the point. Every vehicle that uses the road pays the road user charges.
Worth noting that EVs already pay RUC (as of last year). This is about bringing petrol vehicles into the RUC scheme.
I’m not against the idea but the devil will be in the detail. The current RUC process is dumb and I hate it 😅
Yeah, both my work van and my personal vehicle are diesel, and RUCs are a pain in the ass.
This electronic system sounds great.
I see, thanks.
The current RUC process is dumb and I hate it
Maybe it will improve when everyone is forced to use it… 😅
It will have to! I can’t imagine a government surviving an election after forcing millions of vehicles to go from a simple never think about it petrol tax system into a system where you have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars in tax every time you run out of KMs (that you don’t even know has happened until you go for a WOF because you don’t constantly check your odo).
Although they have made it come into force a couple of years out so maybe this is a trap for the next government.
They should have a transparent window on the back of the pocket, and print the odometer reading on both sides.
It amazes me that nobody has thought of this.
It’s a good thought but I don’t want to have to check at all. I like the idea of estimating and charging regularly, then squaring up at WOF time. A bit like how income tax works.
Or meter readings for electricity etc. You could even put readings up voluntarily in the same way.
