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# Grant Robertson’s ‘No New Taxes’ Promise Out the Window
- URL: https://goodoil.news/grant-robertsons-no-new-taxes-promise-out-the-window/
- Published: 2021-06-18T22:22:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-19T08:52:07.000Z
- Author: General
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

Taxpayers’ Union

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Grant Robertson’s “no new taxes” promise is well and truly out the window.

First, it was [new taxes on landlords](https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/r?u=5xNnogsdD9yGIfGEM2rlXVmVCY4ANUJ4SoMnzguSGYzmZkSqh1AHJVpZCWeuu5xaiVzKUb1FwUKPW0sHwVVXWVd7ppO3iIcWmGxRAffI2rh-ztuZlFjCmq2iPzjqJnPtfQ8AQXSVDPsltWR2Uwxop2QVTiiZKK7O63GiYo9KIxDgHz6Pc1tHf6E2UbHmSQ5DwOq6mmVaalqGoxMIMJ2y15bMsvj0ROogI50ZDy%5FCypmhSO1zbIHav7nwYjGNQhiu&e=60a74dab4ddca719e78a0482505556ed&utm%5Fsource=taxpayers&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=210618%5Ftu%5Fnewsletter%5Flouis&n=9), then it was a [levy on wages](https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/r?u=7EL176YFyxKF3ox3wD2rUare8I0bSkv63od33kHlNR5XmujfGkb8lGNSP9SQbqaFBv9zOBoFOkWTmUpe99Kl0aUPnWSktDxjxxlSAktZpvf3eWD0IDSwFsAbqMGZXwTW6YuUoldypsTdikyB285CMn%5FU9S7rIr8IxsOfVzKXGiVGXrGT4aoNILI9YSjo2b3mB5GR%5F9QDjG7sbDGsXwm2Zg&e=60a74dab4ddca719e78a0482505556ed&utm%5Fsource=taxpayers&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=210618%5Ftu%5Fnewsletter%5Flouis&n=10) to fund unemployment insurance, and now there’s a new tax on petrol vehicles:

![Car tax amounts](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/proxy/idx7fzj_haeylp8dkaguswvuytz2x6ndgbsouo-l_pflqol9r0rsk_lbxq6mv5xrkofwhwewmhcczeif_hwqk6rayrwyh4y0x6jo_7fx0shy7uqkldkyh2dtglkghhpgt-glaqzyjtavgewf54fgjummmnutky3qodmtqrkozlr2naw93dbja0sa7iha0cswrykrfvql.jpg "Car tax amounts")

The car tax unfairly hits tradies, farmers, and large families, in favour of wealthy urban elites ? buying Teslas who will get a fat taxpayer-funded subsidy. Robin Hood would be turning in his grave.

### [**–> Click here to add your name to the petition against Labour’s car tax <–**](https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/cartax??ref=goodoil.news)

Twenty thousand have signed so far.

We’ve also received over a thousand orders for our “Stop Labour’s Car Tax” bumper stickers. [Click here to order a sticker.](https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/car%5Ftax%5Fsticker??ref=goodoil.news)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/unnamed-1.jpg)

After you enter your address, you’ll be taken to a donation page. You’re not obliged to donate, but if you’d like to, $2.50 covers the cost of the sticker and postage. Anything extra will be used to extend the reach of the Car Tax campaign.

### Fact Check: The Car Tax Won’t Even “Drive down Emissions”

![?](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/mail/e/1f621.png)

The car tax does zip for saving overall emissions due to transport already being in the Emissions Trading Scheme.

Transport Minister Michael Woods [claims that up to 9.2 million tonnes](https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/r?u=JW39XyEPijeopXCz3qaoRSWGWvj6wr1d5fPbJH3tWHkyaz3AKv5Q-SWqWupKQLSYxwUGzPSVmqSqjVga9jOkHtmtkZsWqS%5FqlN-4UKalyQXlG7Epm0Xwt28c3G5TZnuk095oRP30HTxlc6BsAlsuTg&e=60a74dab4ddca719e78a0482505556ed&utm%5Fsource=taxpayers&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=210618%5Ftu%5Fnewsletter%5Flouis&n=14) of carbon dioxide emissions will be ‘prevented’ by 2050\. But land transport is already covered by our cap-and-trade emissions scheme. **That means that every emission ‘saved’ frees up credits to make emissions cheaper elsewhere.** It’s called the ‘waterbed effect’ and is precisely why the UN recommends *against* the sort of direct political intervention the Government is pursuing.

> Michael Woods either doesn’t understand the ETS or is lying about the environmental benefits of this scheme.

A tax on petrol vehicles simply makes motorists (who already pay ETS levies on fuel) pay even more. It’s a double tax.

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