Ouch Luxury Vehicle Tax

Cripes, all the yota drivers will have to change over to Nissans!

Not quite right. They've increased the existing 25% to 33% I believe.

Didn't think of my traytop as a luxury vehicle, but when new it would qualify, and I'm not a primary producer.

This has been flagged for quite some months now, which major paragraphs mentioning this when buying new vehicles.....one couldn't miss it.

I thought the LCT was only added to the component above the $57,123 threshold, and is only increasing from 25% to 33%.......should only add ~$3400 to a 100K vehicle!

The messy part is the "notified" retrospective charging of this from 1 July 2008.....

Andrew

Ok so luxuary car tax has gone up....but not on a Jagauar X3 according to question time in Parliament ?
What gives here ?

I don't see an issue with raising taxes on expensive items which, almost be definition, most people don't need.

Mike Harding

Dont blame me you voted for them and it can only get worse

" they mentioned that Primary Producers ect will be exempt"

- yet another example of the Government hitting the poor individual who isn't in a powerful lobby group !

Why is diesel in Australia more expensive than petrol, whereas in most countries it's cheaper?

Because businesses get a Diesl subsidy from the government to make it cheaper - us poor suckers have to pay the full amount.

I believe this tax is totally unfair !!!!!!!

In my opinion a luxury car equates to a porsh , BMW or mercedes and the like not a 4 wheel drive Patrol, Cruiser , Pajero or similar. I would have thought 'luxury' would kick in at around $100,000.

Without wanting to get too political, this is just typical of the labour party who buggered up the superannuation system when Keating introduced the income and assets test on super income to stop some of the countries wealthiest people from collecting aged pensions and welfare. Instead they were successful in stopping many people on modest incomes who had struggled and saved to secure a reasonable retirement. I can only assume the labour party is full of policy advisors who believe if you don't drive a standard Holden or Ford sedan then it must be a luxury to drive anything else.

Perhaps things might change back in 2 years time.

Owning a 4 wheel drive isn't a luxury. Perhaps filling it up is though.

It's the tour operators I feel sorry for, they're not primary producers but it's a business and they contribute business taxes same as primary producers and employ people same as primary producers ...

Oh well, time for them to buy blown up nissan 3.0L patrols and do Toni projects on them and claim it as a business expense I spose.

Not exactly on the same subject - but - similar.
Story as told to me:
Debate in parliament about the unfair taxation on modes of transport. One member ranting on about how some of his constituents were paying a lot of extra in tax for their wheel-chairs and yet how unfair it was that for others with more money, there was no similar tax on Lear jets.

Dry laconic voice from the back bench.
"So stick wings on the wheel chair"

cheers