Should the Australian Government cancel or reduce the tax on fuel?

Wombat · 28-04-08

The Australian Government has a tax on fuel in every state. With prices hitting the $1.50 mark and over, should it be in the best interest to cancel or reduce the tax, to help struggling businesses and families.

thomasp · 28-04-08

Considering we pay nearly 3 times that in Britain, count yourself lucky. Besides, Australia has to wake up to the real world and realise it cant keep pretending to be some island paradise, exempt from the worlds evils. Fuel has Peaked, their is no way Oil will be able to go down in price

michael_blades · 28-04-08

your forgetting that on top of the fuel excise tax (0.45 cents a litre) there is also a 10% GST on the total amount as well.

Boss · 28-04-08

fucck yeah robbing bastards and by the way people that's a $ 1.50 litre

NeilS · 28-04-08

To reduce petrol tax would force income and other taxes through the roof. It's governed by cause and effect and yes I'm Australian too.

JamesH · 28-04-08

$1.50 I am moving to Australian. Last time I look here in Lebanon (a city in the USA) Indiana it was between $2.98 to $3.19. Wait a minute here. Lets do the math. We are cheaper I think. Yours is a liter and ours is gallons. So how many liters in a gallon now.Now to your question tax on fuel. In my State were I live they did that and in the long run the government needs money to run. They lost millions of dollars and now we are paying for that. Government is cutting back. Doing jobs with less people and it hurts were I can't take a vacation because there no one to take my place when I am gone. My job got funded by the gas taxes.

morphonius821 · 28-04-08

As a consumer it would be nice....But those taxes (I hope) are being put to good use and if they were completely removed you would probably find petrol prices back up to their current level in a year.The oil cartels know we are willing to pay this much and would quickly find some means of inflating prices to bridge the gap.I say leave them.......The government obviously needs this cash for something and if this revenue was taken away then it would have to come from somewhere else..... and you would probably find yourself the worse for it.