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.
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
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
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading the blog AJ.
ReplyDeleteWriting 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
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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