{"id":5443,"date":"2019-03-04T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T04:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/dev\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T11:03:12","slug":"punitive-tax-on-electric-vehicles-in-nsw-must-be-avoided-at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/news\/punitive-tax-on-electric-vehicles-in-nsw-must-be-avoided-at-all-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Punitive tax on electric vehicles in NSW must be avoided at all costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5443\" class=\"elementor elementor-5443\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2989a3b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2989a3b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d88dd12\" data-id=\"d88dd12\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ccbd39e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ccbd39e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-300x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-12894\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2c1a1f7c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2c1a1f7c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-790141e9\" data-id=\"790141e9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41aa127f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41aa127f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Electric Vehicle Council is negotiating with NSW Labor to ensure that electric vehicles (EVs) are exempted from the party\u2019s proposed luxury vehicle tax.\n\nLabor\u2019s policy would raise stamp duty on new and used vehicles to $7 per $100 for cars over $100,000, and $9 per $100 over $150,000. When announced, a carve out for EVs was not specified.\n\n\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t raise taxes on solar panels and you shouldn\u2019t raise them on electric vehicles,\u201d said Electric Vehicle Council chief executive Behyad Jafari.\n\n\u201cThe last thing a smart modern state like New South Wales should be doing is actively discouraging people from purchasing EVs.\n\n\u201cVirtually everywhere, even in Trump\u2019s America, consumers are offered large subsidies to encourage them toward EV purchase. It would be madness for New South Wales to buck this global trend so spectacularly.\n\n\u201cA carve out for EVs within Labor\u2019s policy, however, could assist with encouraging the uptake of zero-emission vehicles in the luxury end of the market. This would be a very positive development.\n\n\u201cEVs are coming down in price and there are a range of new entrants in the affordable end of the market. But as things stand most purchases are occurring at the luxury end and that makes this policy important.\n\n\u201cMore broadly, the state government should be pushing hard toward a rapid transition to EVs in New South Wales. Our cities could have clean, quiet roads. Drivers could be spared the costly unpredictability of the bowser. And the economy wouldn\u2019t be completely beholden to imported foreign fuel.\n\n\u201cThe EVC is currently working with NSW Labor to ensure this policy is calibrated sensibly if and when it is introduced.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electric Vehicle Council is negotiating with NSW Labor to ensure that electric vehicles (EVs)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13453,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions\/13453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}