National transport spokesperson Simeon Brown has outlined his party’s plan for road user charges. EVs will be charged similarly to diesel vehicles after next March.
However, all vehicles will be subject to RUCs in the future and NZTA is expecting a rise in non-compliance.
Brown said one of the changes proposed to make sure National Land Transport Fund was fit for the future was to move all vehicles to a road user charge, and away from the use of petrol excise.
“We think that is a much fairer a way to charge for road use, than simply just charging excise, which is actually quite a regressive form of taxation.” […]
Moving all vehicles to a road user charge would be a “fair way to ensure that we sustainably fund transport into the future”, he said.
There were electronic ways and means that that can be done, and the Government would have to invest in technology to do that. […]
The Government currently collects about $4 billion a year from fuel levies and RUC, revenue that is used to build and maintain roads and other transport projects.
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