End of the Road for Fuel Tax

End of the road for fuel tax

The road is running out for using petrol taxes as the primary way to fund New Zealand’s roads. Fuel tax may be simple to administer and penalise...

Fuel Taxes to go - Greater Auckland

The government look set to make things easier for big gas guzzling vehicles with the announcement yesterday that they’re progressing with plans to replace fuel taxes with road user charges. Cabinet has agreed to a series of important legislative changes to enable the transition of New Zealand’s 3.5 million light vehicles to paying for our roading network through electronic road user charges, rather than petrol tax, says Transport Minister Chris…