Re:Australia Is Quitting Coal in Record Time Thanks to Tesla
by Reason077 on Monday April 10, 2023 @07:17AM
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> “Fuel taxes are a trivial component to infrastructure upkeep, is my understanding.”
If that’s true, Australia needs to think about raising its fuel/vehicle taxes!
In the UK, the opposite is true: direct fuel and vehicle taxes raise 3-4X more revenue than is spent on roads annually[1]
[1] In 2021/22, £11.8 billion was spent on UK local and national roads, vs £28 billion raised from fuel duty and £7.1 billion from vehicle excise duty.
Re:Australia Is Quitting Coal in Record Time Thanks to Tesla
by sjy on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:09AM
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In 2021-22, fuel tax raised $18.2 billion, of which $6.89 billion (38%) was returned as fuel tax credits. https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_depart...
Re:Australia Is Quitting Coal in Record Time Thanks to Tesla
by ehnto on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:28AM
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Oh I was way off, I doubt 2019 was much different. I'll adjust my parent comment.
Re:Australia Is Quitting Coal in Record Time Thanks to Tesla
by ilyt on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:30AM
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The point is that people using are paying that. We dont have fuel tax credit here (Poland) so
> 7.8billion came in from fuel excise, 7.7billion went back out in fuel tax credits.
just seems like pointless excercise in bureaucracy...
In essence, everyone pays for federal roads, road user or not, and municipalities pay for local roads. Except for larger state funded projects, which often receive federal assistance. Fuel taxes are a trivial component to infrastructure upkeep, is my understanding.
Another myth is that vehicle registration pays for roads, vehicle registration goes entirely to running the vehicle registration apparatus, that's all.