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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-823/
- Published: 2023-09-10T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-10T06:32:54.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

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.  
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> “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.” \[…\]  
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> 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. \[…\]  
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> The [Government currently collects about $4 billion a year from fuel levies ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300283956/government-looks-to-phase-out-fuel-taxes-road-user-charges-under-transport-review?ref=goodoil.news#:~:text=The%20Government%20currently%20collects%20about,roads%2C%20and%20other%20transport%20projects.&text=Currently%2C%20electric%20vehicles%20are%20exempt,do%20not%20pay%20fuel%20tax.)and RUC, revenue that is [used to build and maintain roads](https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/road-user-charges/about-ruc/?ref=goodoil.news) and other transport projects.

[Read more here](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/132900566/all-vehicles-to-move-to-road-user-charges-under-national-including-evs?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on the *BFD.*

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