This week, CheckMate returns for 2024 to debunk suggestions that the government's proposed new fuel efficiency standards amount to a tax, and bring you up to date with the latest findings from RMIT ABC Fact Check.More than a month on from Labor's unveiling of the details of its proposed new vehicle efficiency standard, the government's opponents continue to claim the scheme amounts to a new tax.
Paul Burke, the head of the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics at the Australian National University, rejected the notion that a new vehicle efficiency standard was a tax. John Quiggin, a professor of economics at the University of Queensland, said in an email: "It is not accurate to describe the standard as a tax, since no revenue is raised.
A spokesman for the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries told Fact Check that its modelling looked at scenarios "on penalties and credits that may apply to brands" under the proposed standards. While Mr Morrison did not leave the country for hundreds of days during the first two years of the pandemic, he did make several trips overseas when various parts of the country were experiencing outbreaks of COVID-19, including one trip in September 2021 when NSW and Victoria were enduring prolonged lockdowns.
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