Wednesday 4 September 2013

TAC TAX RAISED IN PARLIAMENT

To all Victorian Members of Parliament.

In  Opposition  both  Premier Bailieu and Premier Napthine promised to
abolish  the unfair Transport Accident Commission's antibike tax which
TAC calls a "safety levy". See attached.

































On  Tuesday,  September 3, 2013, the Shadow Minister for Roads and the
TAC, Luke Donnellan MLA,  read  a  statement  on  the Premiers' broken
promises into the record. Use the link to read the statement.

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=jVicHansard.dumpall&db=daily&dodraft=1&speech=72&activity=Adjournmant&title=Motorcycle

X  Premier Baillieu MLA was not present. Premier Napthine MLA  was 
not present. Roads Minister Mulder MLA was not present. Minister for 
TAC is Upper House aso he wasn't there either. Makes you question why 
we pay taxes, doesn't it? BUT it's on the record in Hansard.


http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/abolish-tac-antibike-tax.html

SIGN THE PETITION. YOU COULD SAVE $70+ A YEAR!

This  hidden  tax on environmentally-friendly powered two-wheelers  is
unfair and discriminatory. If you taxed 4WDs/SUVs in  similar fashion,
there would be an outcry from the car industry and the RACV. The
RACV supports the TAC tax.  After a decade the road  safety  benefit
is nil.

In fact the $70+ a  year  TAC  tax  hits low  income  earners  hardest
so  it discourages them from buying the best safety  gear  and keeping
their machines in safest condition. It is  a  road  safety  experiment
that failed and should be ended.

The  Victorian  Road  Safety  Committee's  inquiry  into  motorcycle &
scooter safety studied the TAC tax.  It  made  64  recommendations  in
December 2012. No. 25 was:

"THAT THE MOTORCYCLE SAFETY LEVY BE ABOLISHED."

www.parliament.vic.gov.au/rsc/inquiries/article/1409

There   is   absolutely   no   excuse  for keeping the TAC tax.
Or for holding the work of the RSC in such contempt.  

Victoria's   325,000+ motorcycle  &  scooter licence holders and their
families won't forget the TAC tax and the Baillieu/Napthine  backflip   at  the
2014  state elections.

WE RIDE. WE PAY. WE VOTE.

Take this to your local MP and demand that the inquiry recommendation to abolish
the TAC antibike tax be adopted immediately.

www.parliament.vic.gov.au/members

Write "NO MOTORCYCLE SAFETY LEVY" in blank space on your ballot paper
next Saturday. It's a federal election but it's good practice for the 2014 Victorian election.


Damien Codognotto OAM
Spokesman
Independent Riders' Group
Melbourne

www.damiencodognottooam.blogspot.com.au

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoJvui8viW4

3 comments:

  1. really smart, the people counting the vote will mark it as invalid! stupid waste of a vote. stupid people in the IRG not getting what they want. wankers

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  2. Thanks for reading the blog AJ.

    Writing in the blank space on a federal election ballot paper does not invalidate a vote. It was a lobbying technique most famously used by the conservationists to stop the Tasmanian "Hydro" damming the Franklin River. People were urged to write "NO DAMS" on their ballots. some thing like a third did. It sent a strong message to the Hawke Government.

    The idea was put to us by another group and with a state election in 2014, it was an option we tried.

    As for abolishing the TAC tax, it's not only the Independent Riders' Group that wants it abolished. So does just about every motorcycle & scooter rider in Victoria and many of their families, especially those doing it hard.

    The TAC tax is discriminatory. It's morally wrong. Premier Napthine wrote that in his media release. The Parliamentary inquiry in to motorcycle & scooter safety recommended the TAC tax be abolished too. The Shadow Minister for the TAC, Luke Donnellan MP called for the TAC tax to be abolished in state parliament just last week.

    It seems to me that the few people who want this unfair tax to stay include those at TAC and you.

    It took 15 years to change the lights-on law to something acceptable. The TAC tax has only been around for 10.

    Think about it.

    Damien Codognotto OAM

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  3. I want the tax gone too, but the way you go about it is anarchic to say the least. again, this way of voting is stupid.

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