Land Transport (Clean Vehicle Discount Scheme Repeal) Amendment Bill

What a great day for this coalition Government, that promised a 100-day action plan. We just heard “What is the urgency with this?” The urgency is this was one of our big campaign promises and over a million people supported it, and to think that in the first few days of this Government we’re coming out and backing businesses, small businesses, farmers, New Zealand taxpayers.

The member over there, Megan Woods, asked for numbers and evidence. Well, if a $302 million deficit on taxpayers is not enough numbers, then let’s have a look at this. What did the subsidy do? What did the tax do to on-farm inflation? The year that it was introduced, on-farm inflation for sheep and beef farmers rose to 16.3 percent, up from 10.2 percent, and Dairy New Zealand says on-farm inflation for the last three years has been at 33 percent. So, under Labour, inflation soared for our small businesses and farmers, and yet they just whacked on another tax, the ute tax, for good measure. Land prices are the lowest they’ve been in 15 years. Fertiliser, fuel, machinery, insurances, and rates have all soared under Labour. So I’m delighted to support this coalition Government’s urgency on whacking this tax, axing the ute tax. I commend the bill.

This bill is set down for committee stage immediately. I declare the House in committee for consideration of the Land Transport (Clean Vehicle Discount Scheme Repeal) Amendment Bill.

In Committee

Part 1 Amendments to Land Transport Act 1998 and Land Transport Management Act 2003