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Aucklanders to be hit by 10c fuel tax
NZPA | Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Aucklanders will be hit with a 10 cent tax on every litre of petrol to pay for the regions roads and trains, it was tipped today.
The Auckland region will be given the go-ahead to introduce a fuel tax in an announcement understood to form part of the Government's Budget, the New Zealand Herald reports today.
A third of the tax, 3.5c, would be used for the electrification of Auckland's suburban trains.
The rest of the tax would help pay for Rodney District Council's link-road between Whangaparaoa Peninsula and the Northern Motorway, and for completing the Manukau-Waterview western ring route.
A 10c-a-litre levy would add $6 to the cost of filling an average 60-litre tank.
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