Rego rip offs

[Morcs]

I know regos went up a while back, but I just bought 3 months (too skint for more) and it cost me 72 freeking bucks. Most of which is obviously ACC.

Now I know the whole everyone-pays-a-little-to-help-the-few-in-need taxation system, but I think its still very excessive...

A years rego must be about 250 for a bike.
Last year I crashed many many more times than probably 90% of the biking community. All visits to get treatment for injuries were ACC subsidised - but the ACC total worked out to be less than my acc levy.

Am i missing something here?

[unrealone]

I know regos went up a while back, but I just bought 3 months (too skint for more) and it cost me 72 freeking bucks. Most of which is obviously ACC.

Now I know the whole everyone-pays-a-little-to-help-the-few-in-need taxation system, but I think its still very excessive...

A years rego must be about 250 for a bike.
Last year I crashed many many more times than probably 90% of the biking community. All visits to get treatment for injuries were ACC subsidised - but the ACC total worked out to be less than my acc levy.

Am i missing something here?

Yes ..............


You live in New Zealand

[MaxB]

On Monday 12 months rego was $267.21.

Apparently we have to pay something towards the off-roaders who smash themselves up on unregistered bikes. Don't see cage drivers paying for go-kart and quad bike crashes do you?

[Morcs]

Used to cost 15 quid a year for road tax in the uk - thats like 35-40 buks PER YEAR.
And of course they was a national health service that was pretty much free etc etc - and the tax rates there arent that much higher if at all.

[Winter]

I came off my (road, registered) bike and got pretty smashed up.. ACC probably spent close to 50k on me when you add it all up.

I've probably only paid them a few hundred in my rego fees....

[MaxB]

Used to cost 15 quid a year for road tax in the uk - thats like 35-40 buks PER YEAR.
And of course they was a national health service that was pretty much free etc etc - and the tax rates there arent that much higher if at all.

A mate in the UK has just got his R1 prepped for the spring and the rego cost GBP66 (about $190) and MOT test GBP40. It is cheaper than here but only by $40 or so.

Then again he pays GBP 630 for insurance 'cos of where he lives so overall he reckons bikes are cheaper to run in NZ.

[Waxxa]

The population base in NZ is small compared to the UK, therefore taxes/ACC will cost the individual more here in NZ to PAY for services/medical etc.

[Max Preload]

The population base in NZ is small compared to the UK, therefore taxes/ACC will cost the individual more here in NZ to PAY for services/medical etc.

Sorry, but.... what? If injury rates are similar then there's no difference.

[R6_kid:Me]

I reckon remove the ACC levy from rego and add it to fuel, that way anyone using anything with a motor is paying for their potential to be injured.

I mean it can't be tha hard to come up with a realistic figure for total fuel consumption across the country for the previous year, and divide it by the cost placed on ACC by vehicle accidents. That way were are paying for the previous year, and of course if there are less accidents then we should pay less. Yeah right!

[Anarkist]

I reckon remove the ACC levy from rego and add it to fuel, that way anyone using anything with a motor is paying for their potential to be injured.

I mean it can't be tha hard to come up with a realistic figure for total fuel consumption across the country for the previous year, and divide it by the cost placed on ACC by vehicle accidents. That way were are paying for the previous year, and of course if there are less accidents then we should pay less. Yeah right!

But then how would they stereotype motorcyclists? That's what the whole idea behind higher levy's for us is.
Put another way, the levy is the only direct way to target motorcyclists without targeting car drivers as collateral. Unless we were to have a 'tax at pump' scheme.

[Burrt Badger]

I reckon remove ACC levy from registration and put it on a yearly licence renewal, cause you can only drive/ride one vehicle at a time.

[MarkyMark]

Apparently the cost of motorcycle injuries to ACC is already subsidized by the cage rego levy, our Rego cost is only about 1/4 of the cost of treatment. It takes a whole lot of people paying a hundred bucks to pay for the one guy who needs a few hundred grand of treatment, and then to retrofit his life to deal with his new wheelchair-bound existence.

[sunhuntin]

On Monday 12 months rego was $267.21.

Apparently we have to pay something towards the off-roaders who smash themselves up on unregistered bikes. Don't see cage drivers paying for go-kart and quad bike crashes do you?

thats cos quad bikes are considered under the same umbrella as motorbikes, just like scooters etc. so we pay for any fuck up by a farmer.

the idea of putting it on petrol is a good idea, but then thered be endless bitching about the higher cost of petrol.