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All car owners will pay road user charges by 2027 (youtu.be)

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[–] Viper_NZ 1 points 2 months ago

The current system of excise tax rewards those with efficient cars (though not EVs) and penalises big polluters.

Unless this comes with an additional carbon/pollution penalty this is going to be great news for V8 Commodore drivers, and terrible news for everyone driving a Toyota Aqua.

In the mean time, salty EV owners get to pay triple the road tax per km that a petrol driven Prius does.