Originally Posted by
On eyre
Your semi I presume is off public roads to claim a rebate of excise like farmers, miners and fishermen can.
Th example I quoted for 5000 litres in a semi is using the governments own tool. Eligibility is for diesel/petrol/blended fueled heavy vehicles (GVM over 4.5 tons)
FOR travelling on a public road and registered for GST.
If I claimed 5000 litres of diesel for agriculture/mining/fishing/construction or landscaping ie off road stuff then it climbs to 50.6 cpl, or about $2500.
Nothing powered by Aviation fuels is covered, and you can't claim gaseous fuels such as LNG/CNG or LPG for heavy vehicles.
That's using the simplified calculator for claims of less than $10000 per year. Obviously large businesses have to keep books on whats on or off public roads for what use and so on and would calculate actual burn per km for an actual vehicle or fleet.
After considering the posts regarding highways, railways, byways, airways, terminals, networks, subsidies, costs, profits, cross subsidies, taxes, excises, various exemptions, demographics, bail ins, bail outs, the taxpayer, tax evaders, fare evaders, socio economics boundaries, regional vs metropolitan areas, redistribution of population, places of work, access to services, climate change, energy, environment, politics, corporate structure/governance, infrastructure, multiple authorities, state and federal regulations ... to name a few and also thinking about sea lanes, rivers, harbours, ports, economic zones, engineering, technology, freedom of navigation. I think the solution is to nationalise all domestic transport services into one National Public Transport System (There2There). Free for everyone. Overhaul the whole system and place it under one administration. In ten years you could produce the cheapest, most efficient, most effective, environmentally friendly, public transport system on the planet.
Except that government run anything usually suffers from massive bloat and it will cost 10 times more than the equivalent private company. It all depends whether you want a lot of overpaid employment in government agencies and end up like the well known Mediterranean countries up to their eyeballs in debt and union issues. Or part subsidized private enterprises with less employment on sustainable wages with a fit and fighting economy. Germany does have some well run government companies, Deutsche Bahn being a good example, but those are rare, and of course its German, so its efficient, just don't ask how.