Re: Diesel fuel excise reduction

[kirkby.jonathon@fin.gc.ca]

The August 1998 Australian tax reform white paper says (p86):

"As an additional boost to transport[...] the Government will introduce a new
comprehensive diesel fuel credit for registered business[...]  This credit
will reduce the effective excise payable on diesel fuel used in heavy
transport[...] and rail from around 43 cents per litre to 18 cents per
litre."

Regards


Jonathon K.


In article <771nq8$nbv@ob1.uws.EDU.AU>,
  "Ben Staples" <98711576@student.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au> wrote:
> In the Herald today I read, and quote "...the Commenwealth Government is
> proposing to slash the diesel fuel excise for heavy vehicles (road, but not
> rail) from 43c to 18c in its tax package."
>
> I have heard of the dieslel fuel excise reduction as part of the tax reform
> package, but never knew that ot was only trucks that would benifit. Surely
> this cannot be true. The government is fully subsidising the road freight
> industry and hell to rail transport. I spit on little John.
>
> Ben Staples
>
>

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