{"id":51397,"date":"2021-06-23T07:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=51397"},"modified":"2022-06-13T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:25:26","slug":"sa-ev-tax-mb2049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-ev-tax-mb2049\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Electric Vehicle Tax Bill Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victoria and New South Wales have played their cards on “road user charges” for electric vehicles – and South Australia will soon do the same.<\/p>\n

Last year, the South Australian government announced its intentions to introduce a road user charge for plug-in electric and zero emission vehicles. At that point, SA Treasurer Rob Lucas said the proposed charge was to include a fixed component and a variable charge based on distance travelled.<\/p>\n

The news met with mixed reactions<\/a>, but the backlash against it was strong enough for the Marshall Government to go pretty quiet on it – for a while. In February this year, a state parliamentary committee was told Victoria\u2019s new user-charge model was being considered for South Australia.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, in what was Rob Lucas’s last budget before he drives off into the sunset (vehicle type unknown) and towards the end of his 11-page Budget speech<\/a>, he mentioned:<\/p>\n

“Consistent with the commitment in last year\u2019s budget and now that legislation has passed in Victoria the government will introduce in the coming weeks its promised bill for a road user charge for electric vehicles.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, it won’t be long before we get to see what has been cooked up.<\/p>\n

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\nUPDATE 11.15 AM<\/strong>: According to an article from March on The Driven<\/a>, Rob Lucas said the scheduled start date for whatever the Marshall Government intends attempting to implement is July 2022.
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Here’s what’s happening in other states that the Marshall Government has been scrutinising.<\/p>\n

Victoria – ZLEV Road User Charge<\/h2>\n

On the take side, Victoria\u2019s Andrews Government has introduced a 2.5 cents per-kilometre Zero And Low-Emissions Vehicles (ZLEV) road user charge for fully electric cars and 2 cents for plug-in hybrids. The tax was described as “the worst EV policy in the world<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The ZLEV Road User Charge information page<\/a> notes:<\/p>\n

“In the 12 months from 1 July 2021, electric vehicle registered operators could expect to pay $337.50 and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles registered operators to pay $270 in ZLEV road-user charges.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the give side, electric vehicles are exempt from the luxury vehicle rate of stamp duty and also benefit from a $100 annual discount on vehicle registration. More recently, a $3,000 rebate for electric cars<\/a> and other zero emissions vehicles has been introduced.<\/p>\n

New South Wales – EV RUC<\/h2>\n

The NSW government’s recently released Electric Vehicle Strategy<\/a> notes a distance-based road user charge (RUC) for eligible EVs of 2.5c\/km will be introduced on 1 July 2027 or when electric vehicles reach 30 per cent\u00a0of new vehicle sales; whichever occurs first.<\/p>\n

Tax cuts and incentives for electric vehicles over the next four years were also announced, which start in September.<\/p>\n