Rego Cashback - Free rego for those spending more than $25 per week over a year on Sydney toll roads.

anaphylactoid on 20/11/2017 - 15:43
Last edited 20/11/2017 - 15:43

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NSW Premier just announced: (see link on SMH for full details)

"Motorists spending more than $25 a week on Sydney's toll roads over a year will be eligible for free vehicle registration…The so-called rego rebate will save the majority of motorists who apply $358 a year on registration costs, and some up to $715."

The scheme will be available for standard privately registered cars, utes, four-wheel-drives and motorcycles from July 1 next year; but will be backdated from 1st of July 2017.

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  • Looking4Bargians on 20/11/2017 - 15:44
    +3

    That will be the longest wait for the deal to get activated.

  • dealspider on 20/11/2017 - 15:45
    +6

    So government encourages people to drive more and use Toll roads?

    • Ryanek on 20/11/2017 - 16:39
      -1

      Glass half empty kind of guy eh?

  • Iwantthatbargain on 20/11/2017 - 15:45

    I spend $25 of toll in an year :)

    • [Deactivated] on 20/11/2017 - 18:25
      +1

      Still waiting for benefits/tax money to be thrown at people who do not drive or catch public transport….

      • D C on 20/11/2017 - 21:02
        +2

        People like you are the reason we no longer have a car industry. If you had purchased a crappy Commodore every few years like you're supposed to, the economy would be booming!

        I mean in NSW we had to purchase new trains from Korea or somewhere, that money could have been better spent on roads and bonuses to car company executives.

        Public transport is clearly un-Australian, and should be banned. (NSW government is working on it though.)

        • [Deactivated] on 20/11/2017 - 21:41

          I dont catch public transport either.

          Good post… though sarcasm and trolling is meant to be my thing.

          Feel bad i cant do burnouts in a ute while listening to fitzy and wippa now…

        • Tuba on 21/11/2017 - 13:14

          @eggmaster:

          Feel bad i cant do burnouts in a ute while listening to fitzy and wippa now…

          There must ben app for your phone to do that…

      • [Deactivated] on 28/11/2017 - 08:43

        According to a 2003 report RailCorp required a government subsidy of close to $1.8 billion a year, approximately 5% of the state budget and more than three times what it collects in fares.

        So in 2003 your received a benefit. I would presume that the government continues to subsidies CityRail so you would continue to have money thrown at you.

  • raiseyoursteaks on 20/11/2017 - 15:47
    -2

    your move Victoria!

    • teasatotalling on 20/11/2017 - 15:48
      +6

      Being the progressive state, we build public transport, so as to not cater to the 1%

    • Tacooo on 20/11/2017 - 15:59

      "We finally introduced payment plans for our exorbitant $750 rego fees"

      Come on. Vic already made it easier for the layperson to afford rego.

  • anaphylactoid on 20/11/2017 - 15:47

    haha yeah! didn't know where to put it! I probably should have posted this on the OzBargain forum!

  • richmond12 on 20/11/2017 - 15:47
    +4

    good deal for those that use the car a lot but basically this an incentive for more cars on the toll roads and traffic then?

    • orangetrain on 21/11/2017 - 14:15

      M4 had much less cars since they introduced tolls. I bet the donors are complaining that people prefer to spend an extra 10 minutes to save 6 bucks (?).

  • beigehornet on 20/11/2017 - 15:49
    +1

    so spend 1300 bux on Tolls and get free rego… still works out about the same

    • hogwarts on 20/11/2017 - 15:53
      +4

      Better than 2600 bux on tolls and rego.

  • Online Bathroomware on 20/11/2017 - 15:50

    Pre-empting the Class Action Lawsuit against Transurban?
    https://www.gofundme.com/bobjarvistollbuster

    • beigehornet on 20/11/2017 - 16:00
      +1

      Watch this fail, he does realize this is a private road yeh….

      • Tuba on 21/11/2017 - 13:18

        In name only…

  • accessdenied on 20/11/2017 - 15:50

    Is this a bargain?

  • Yapapi on 20/11/2017 - 15:50
    +7

    Thanks OP, just in time to stock up for Christmas. I've bought 2 dozen.

  • hippyhippy on 20/11/2017 - 15:51

    The government essentially makes you pay for tolls.. But gives you free rego.. You lose out.. 25 per week is 1250 minimum on tolls…

    • ronnknee on 20/11/2017 - 16:19
      +2

      Going by 52 weeks a year, the minimum is actually $1300.

  • ets27 on 20/11/2017 - 15:51
    +4

    Officeworks price match??

  • dapt on 20/11/2017 - 15:53
    +1

    So the government are effectively saying they're collecting too much registration money… I'd much rather they spend the extra on actually maintaining and fixing the roads that everyone uses, there's some bloody shockers around my area.

    • mattythecapybara on 20/11/2017 - 16:13
      +1

      I think they're just trying to encourage people to move from regular roads to toll roads. The more that various companies collecting tolls collapse or are otherwise financially unviable, the more that governments will have to pony up for new projects.

      • D C on 20/11/2017 - 21:06

        The usually process is to announce a project, give it to private industry to build "because they're better at it", add a clause to the contract that states "we'll subsidise your losses even if you pull the projected income out of your rear end" and the ministers responsible get a job on the board a few years later.

        The "we'll subsidise you…" clause must have been forgotten here, and the job offer was looking shaky.

        Stupid policy for a stupid country. Carry on then.

        • mattythecapybara on 20/11/2017 - 21:58

          Given the number of such companies who have gone under, I don't know if bailouts are standard, although maybe it is for the newer projects.

          I'm not sure who overstates the numbers in various projects, but again the number of companies that have gone under implies that in those cases at least, they might have been sold a fantasy by the government or a third party.

        • D C on 20/11/2017 - 22:05

          @mattythecapybara: It's not a bailout, the government subsidies them from the beginning.

          "Project was $250M and you only made 5 cents? Ok, here's a cheque for $249,999,999.95"

          Been happening for ages, the airport line in Sydney is classic example. (And you don't see airport workers getting a kickback to cover their excessive travel expenses.)

  • anaphylactoid on 20/11/2017 - 15:54

    Sorry guys, I should probably put this on a forum for further discussion! Going to expire it and move it to the OzBargain forum!

  • Ruprect on 20/11/2017 - 15:54
    +1

    I don't see how this will encourage people onto toll roads as its expensive either way but it will benefit some who already use them. All it looks like doing is reducing government revenue for public roads?? Strange policy.

  • dealspider on 20/11/2017 - 15:59
    +2

    They use tax-payer money for this scam instead of getting the toll companies to introduce a refund scheme.

    • D C on 20/11/2017 - 22:24
      +1

      It's not like the toll companies are going to give back money.

      So the government is throwing away a bunch of revenue in order to prop up their mates while dressing it up as a rebate to the battlers.

      As @Ruprect said, strange policy.

      • dealspider on 21/11/2017 - 10:48

        Yeah.. you are right. This is as bad as how they abandoned the tram network in Sydney and introduce cheaper cars.

  • jellykingdom on 20/11/2017 - 16:14

    Yeah i'm not sure this is going to work out too well for them here

    $25 per week isn't very much…

  • [Deactivated] on 20/11/2017 - 16:42
    +2

    bikies?

  • chillybags on 21/11/2017 - 08:32

    I think it’s pretty decent. I drive a lot of km and my rego is about $600 pa. I have the option to use tolls but avoid them. At effectively $13 a week I can rack up a fair few toll trips at essentially half price - would probably incline me towards using the toll roads

  • bigeater on 21/11/2017 - 08:55

    That pretty much equals to approx 40% off toll charge, still expensive as.

  • parker2004au on 21/11/2017 - 13:07

    Have they released how the car rego =/= toll user is counted?

    I have a vehicle in the name of X, and etag in the name of Y (with rego X added to it) - would this be counted or does vehicle owner have to match tag owner?

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