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State Treasurer Tim Pallas has proposed a financial sweetener of up to $5000 for 10,500 people who buy new electric vehicles, as part of the governmentâs push to see its controversial electric vehicle tax become law.
But the proposed subsidy has been greeted with incredulity by some in the automotive industry, and was described by the managing director of Volkswagen Group Australia, Michael Bartsch, as a âthought bubble response to placate justified criticism of a thought bubble taxâ.
Tim Stewart lives in a regional area and bought a plug-in hybrid for flexibility but says the electric vehicle tax would make it expensive.