Bikers' ACC levy lift pared back

**Headbanger** · 1st December 2009, 07:58

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3111...ift-pared-back

The ACC has wound back recommended levy increases for motorcyclists, but riders of big bikes will still face a rise of more than 50 per cent next year.
The state insurer will today release to ministers its final recommendation, which will see the levies on employers, workers and motor vehicles all rise.

**Headbanger** · 1st December 2009, 07:58

Fuck em, Not going to pay rego.

**ManDownUnder** · 1st December 2009, 08:01

Nice move - I wonder if commentary will be made along the lines of "well we have to raise this levy that levy etc because the moey has to come from somewhere so you'll just have to keep subsidising motorcycles"

... preparing the ground for next review where they probably get set at the originally intended levels.

**James Deuce** · 1st December 2009, 08:06

I was thinking.

Don't pay Rego. Donate the Rego to a BRONZ nominated charity. Refuse donations from Ulysses members.

**avgas** · 1st December 2009, 08:10

Originally Posted by Headbanger

Fuck em, Not going to pay rego.

And slowly people come to realise the greatest protest of all......and you all thought I was sitting on my hands with this

**Headbanger** · 1st December 2009, 08:13

Perhaps we will get a break when they introduce carbon credits for personal vehicles.....

**RiderInBlack** · 1st December 2009, 08:18

"The average rate for cars (including the levy on petrol) will surge from $287 to $352.19 a year."
"The cost for motorbikes bigger than 600cc would rise from $430.54 to $739.32, but that is down on the $781.12 originally suggested by the ACC. It would fall to $659.26 once the law change was in place" (Judge must have been drink Tuis if he thinks we are going ta believe that Bull Shit

).
Not much of a change at all

Fu*k'em.

**PuppetMaster** · 1st December 2009, 08:19

Originally Posted by James Deuce

I was thinking.

Don't pay Rego. Donate the Rego to a BRONZ nominated charity. Visit a massage parlour.

I agree, good idea.

**RiderInBlack** · 1st December 2009, 08:24

Originally Posted by Headbanger

Fuck em, Not going to pay rego.

Don't worry HB, there's a few of us out here that are planning to do just that if they carry out raping us bikers with these outrageous levies hikes.

**James Deuce** · 1st December 2009, 08:26

Originally Posted by PuppetMaster

I agree, good idea.

Don't pay Rego. Visit a massage parlour.

That's more like it.

**ManDownUnder** · 1st December 2009, 08:29

Would it be overly subversive if I ... say... registered my 2003 Charcoal coloured VTR1000 and scanned the reg tag... such that others could print it - purely for the purposes of them to admire the incredible resolution of my scanner of course...

**RiderInBlack** · 1st December 2009, 08:32

What's more I wíll refuse to pay any fines related to not paying the rego. I would consider just paying the same as the cars or the rego cost before the hike, but I refuse to paying anything above that.

**mashman** · 1st December 2009, 08:32

"Earners face a rise from $1.70 now to $2.80 per $100 of income next year, although that will drop to $2.70 once the new ACC law is passed."

So for a salary of $50,000, you're going to be paying $1400 instead of $850... add fuel levy, add rego levy... Fuck it, I may never come back to NZ!