Petrol taxes ditched from 2027 as part of transport funding reforms

Petrol taxes ditched from 2027 as part of transport funding reforms
Transport Minister and tolling fan Simeon Brown. (Image: NZME)
Oliver Lewis
The Government wants to transition the light vehicle fleet from fuel taxes to road-user charges from as early as 2027 as part of a broader suite of transport funding reforms, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.Brown made the comment at the Building Nations conference, hosted by industry body Infrastructure New Zealand in Auckland on Thursday, reiterating what a number of other speakers have already said: that the land transport funding model and the sustainability of the national land transport fund (NLTF) are increasingly broken.Successive G...

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