Opinion
Feds should pave way for gold standard road user charges
Regardless of what the High Court decides, fuel excise duty should be killed off quickly and give way to a smarter way to pay for roads.
Marion TerrillInfrastructure and transport expertIt’s pistols at dawn for Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas as they turn to the High Court to resolve whether Victoria’s per-kilometre charge on electric vehicles is constitutional.
But whatever the High Court decides, it should be the states that end up with this potentially lucrative but under-exploited tax base in the longer term; and it’s in the federal government’s gift to smooth the transition.
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