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Old 04-09-2008, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Kato
If the government is to help working familes have a better lifestyle, why not have an enquiry into why a car like the VE is able to be sold significantly cheaper overseas than it is in Australia. Obviously there is a big scam going on somewhere.

If prices were similar to the US market, then yeah I can understand a luxury car tax. Currenly LCT should really only be on cars over $200k.
cha*ching !! Import tax, LCT etc all are govt revenue raising devices disguised as protection initiatives, not dissimilar to the alcopop tax and multanova which are also pathetic excuses for revenue raising.

Speed kills, pfft so does drink driving but until they invent a drink driving camera the road safety sheep will never bleat "Drink driving kills"
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