Jim Chalmers wants to fix Australia’s broken road tax system. Here’s what one solution might look like
- Written by Hussein Dia, Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
Taras Vyshnya/ShutterstockAustralia’s road tax system has a problem. Revenue from the fuel excise – the primary way we tax motoring – has been declining steadily as a proportion of government revenue over the past two decades.
Politicians, policy experts and business leaders have all long called for reform. Now, change could be...
