Why Taxi Drivers Are Making So Much Fuss?

• 1
• 2
• 3

• • 

    GameChanger on 13/09/2015 - 12:47

    -1

    You do know Australian companies use loop holes to 'tax minimize' most of them are off shoring the earning overseas as well.

    • 

      Flowerbomb on 13/09/2015 - 13:38

      Yes you're right, some domestic companies are doing it as well. But there should be more priority on these big international companies especially when billions of lost revenue are at stake, the money can help in building roads/healthcare etc. International companies shouldn't get special preference and pay tax like Australian companies. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/08/16/firms-avoided-…

• 

  jordanzac on 13/09/2015 - 12:58

  +2

  I am very pro-uber. There is one main reason:
  I left my wallet in an Uber. 2 minutes after I got out the driver called me and said "mate you've left your wallet in the car. I'll swing back around and you can collect it".
  He didn't charge me for the time or anything.
  Say I took a taxi and paid cash… I'd never see my wallet again

  • 

    Aneurism on 13/09/2015 - 19:10

    "Say I took a taxi and paid cash… I'd never see my wallet again"

    This isn't always the case

• 

  Kranbone on 13/09/2015 - 17:18

  I've been very disappointed with the service of regular taxis. On a consistent and regular basis they are unclean (both the taxi and driver), break road rules and are very lazy.

  Are taxi drivers meant to load your suitcase/luggage (I've always thought so) but yet every driver has a bad back.

  • 

    usman6062 on 15/09/2015 - 14:06

    +1

    I agree….taxi & taxi drivers are not clean. But it is not a responsibility of taxi driver to load n unload your luggage. You are paying them to take you from point A to B. Loading luggage is a good gesture from a taxi driver if he/she does. Most of them doesn't do it though.

    I would say even if we take uber, it is still our responsibility to load unload luggage.

• 

  eug on 13/09/2015 - 23:13

  +1

  A friend of mine visiting from overseas took a taxi from Brisbane Airport to the Mariott. Those of us in Brisbane would know that it's just a matter of hopping onto Kingsford Smith Drive, then turning left onto Breakfast Creek Road and simply going straight - the Mariott will be on the left once you hit the start of the city on that same road.

  The taxi driver took him through the ICB to Milton, then through Coro Drive back into the city, through the city to the other end of it where the hotel is. It was 11pm so traffic was not an issue.

  Not a good first impression. I told him to just use Uber for all his future trips.

• 

  [Deactivated] on 14/09/2015 - 08:57

  +2

  The reason they are pissed is because they are 'Following the law' in buying taxi licenses from local city council/government to be a taxi, while uber drivers do not.

  http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cost-of-buying-a-taxi-licence-in-s…

  So a taxi driver has to take out a $400k loan to buy a license, meaning at 7% interest the first $540/week they make goes to the bank.

  Uber on the other hand is a technology/rideshare company that doesnt have to buy any licenses.

  I agree with taxi drivers that this is 100% unfair. Either allow taxi drivers to not pay the license or tax uber.

  Uber drivers however are not the problem, its the government. And then, even if they tax Uber, I'd much rather Uber than take a taxi.

  • 

    ChickenTalon on 14/09/2015 - 13:24

    -1

    It's a government that has been lobbied constantly by the rent seeking taxi industry! The govt created, at the request of the taxi industry the little cosy monopoly that they have enjoyed up until this point by restricting the numbers of new taxi plates available and legislating against competition.

    They scream and bitch and moan whenever there is an attempt to bring in more plates or improve things for customers. I feel for some the drivers caught in the middle. But I have ZERO sympathy for the taxi industry.

• 

  eKPardesi on 14/09/2015 - 12:00

  +1

  I am with comments which call for a level plane field.
  Uber and taxi drivers are not to blame here (with exception for bad service!)
  government needs to regulate Uber or completely de-regulate the industry so other players (not just Uber),
  can enter the market.

  So far Uber is getting away being backed by the big guy, so its unfair to small players.
  If government slash their stake along with lots of other overheads, taxi will be much cheaper and even cheaper than Uber.

  About tax evasion, all businesses which deal with cash are guilty of this. don't forget your local shops and tradies …

• 

  ruskiromka on 14/09/2015 - 12:36

  +1

  I used to drive taxis. I'd make about $150-200 per 12 hour shift on average. If it was so well payed, more aussies would be doing it.

• 

  pebee47 on 14/09/2015 - 19:30

  I suppose one day the Govt's of our fine nation will get off their collective butts and ensure Uber Vehicles get registered as such, are covered with adequate consumer insurance and have the 6 monthly (or whenever) rego checks. Throw in endorsement (at a cost of course) for the drivers and voila!, we will have a new level of taxi!
  Just like the mini-cabs shook up the London Cabs back then.
  After "X" years people will find it hard to "remember when…." (then we'll get a new service come along that will "P-off" all our "legitimate" Uber drivers)

• 

  shaybisc on 22/09/2015 - 08:19

  "I personally know at least 12 taxi drivers who make more than $150K per year but they pay less than $1500 tax and they also claim Centrelink payments for being low income earner."

  What are you, a priest? Do they tell you this at confession?

  Preposterous rubbish.

• 1
• 2
• 3