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M5 Motorway Cashback Scheme for NSW Residents - Tolls for Private Trips $0.43 after $4.31 Cashback (Paid Quarterly)

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M5 Motorway Cashback Scheme for NSW Residents - Tolls for Private Trips $0.43 after $4.31 Cashback (Paid Quarterly)
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sharetrader on 20/01/2019 - 19:40 rms.nsw.gov.au (1562 clicks)
Last edited 06/10/2020 - 01:44 by 1 other user

PSA for NSW residents who use the M5 motorway.

I was reading through the NSW Government offers this year and was reminded that the M5 Toll cashback is still in place. (Unlike the M4 cashback which was cancelled in 2010 - but the M5 cashback could be cancelled once the roadworks are done)

I had signed up to this offer years ago and was pleasantly surprised with a few hundred dollars back in refunds!

Repost as per previous deals - credited below.

Eligibility
To participate in Cashback you need to open and pay your M5 tolls using an electronic tolling account registered for Cashback.

You can only claim Cashback if:

You are a NSW resident.
Your vehicle is registered in NSW for private, pensioner or charitable use. Trips made using government or business registered vehicles (including vehicles provided as part of a salary package), leased vehicles, rented vehicles, smash repair courtesy vehicles, car dealership loan vehicles, interstate registered vehicles or any other vehicle where business usage is shown on the registration papers, for example 'business general' or 'primary producer' are ineligible.
You have registered for M5 Cashback with your tolling provider.
You have paid M5 tolls using a NSW issued electronic tag or tagless account.
You have submitted your claim within twelve months of the close of the Cashback quarter. Claims received more than 12 months after the close of each quarter will not be accepted.
Your eligibility for a Cashback rebate starts from the first day of the month in which you register for Cashback. M5 tolls paid before the date you register will not be refunded.

Registering for Cashback
You can register for Cashback at any time by contacting your electronic tolling account provider.

If you don’t have an electronic tolling account, you can join one of the following providers who participate in Cashback:

Roads and Maritime Services
Interlink Roads
Roam Tolling
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Original Post
2017 update

Used the MoneySmart GST Calculator to calculate the GST component which doesn't get refunded.

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Comments

  • bargain ben on 20/01/2019 - 20:05
    -7

    This doesn't meet the requirement of being a "deal"

    • Bellpop on 20/01/2019 - 20:20

      You don’t meet the requirements of being a “good bloke”

      • Scab on 20/01/2019 - 21:09
        +4

        I meet the requirements of being a scab.

        • Bot456 on 21/01/2019 - 02:00

          Username checks out.

    • littlegreenman on 20/01/2019 - 20:48
      +15

      I agree, it's been around for years. Are we going to post that a pensioner can get a discount on their phone line now as well? Not a deal.

      • Yarkin on 21/01/2019 - 09:34
        +1

        Phone discount?? You've just changed my life! Thanks!!

      • vid_ghost on 21/01/2019 - 10:33

        I've been using this M5 cashback thing for the lat 5+ years now :)

  • rtk74 on 20/01/2019 - 20:10
    +1

    Thanks!!!
    I totally forgot about this, manage to snag $25

  • alz on 20/01/2019 - 20:13
    +19

    Old news. What's changed

    • D6C1 on 20/01/2019 - 20:38
      +1

      Once the road works finish, the cash back scheme will be canned

  • Zenith2k3 on 20/01/2019 - 20:37
    +1

    Cashback won't apply on the new sections, but will still apply to the existing ones.

    "Tolls on the motorway in Sydney's south-west were due to expire in 2023 but the O'Farrell government agreed to extend them until 2026 when it signed a deal five years ago with the motorway's private operator to widen the road's western section.

    The Baird government has not revealed whether the cashback scheme will be extended if tolls remain on the M5 after 2026.

    Roads Minister Duncan Gay said he had no plans to wind back the cashback scheme and any future proposal to remove it would be a decision for the government of the day."

    "https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/taxpayer-bill-for-cashback-scheme-on-sydney-toll-roads-hits-15-billion--and-climbing-20161208-gt6hiq.html"

    • Diji1 on 20/01/2019 - 22:09
      +7

      Yet another case of corporate welfare at your expense.

      Privatisation is only done to enrich massive businesses owned by the super wealthy because you voted Labor or Liberal who are both controlled by neoliberal idealogues who do the bidding of these entities at your expense.

      https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-26/frijters-foster-battl…

      • BusMan247 on 21/01/2019 - 10:36

        I'm not a conspiy guy, but this is pretty spot on.

        Finite resources, expanding population.

  • viperxz on 20/01/2019 - 20:40

    Anyone know if they're planning to toll M5 east?

    I've seen they've put up toll gantries but no world on if they are going to make another already public road a toll road like they did with the M4.

    • JungliChilli on 20/01/2019 - 20:59
      +1

      According to the article below it seems that m5 East will be tolled. I havent seen any new toll gantries on the Bexley road entry/exit yet.
      Guess it will be installed soon.

      (https://www.theleader.com.au/story/5616852/toll-gantry-insta…)

      • Beefgrinder on 20/01/2019 - 23:33
        +1

        No, this are in now, just a little more subtle than those over King Georges Road.

        I'd like to see the justification of adding tolls to a 20-year-old stretch of road, but the current government just sees everything as commodities to be sold, so it's hardly surprising…

        • JungliChilli on 21/01/2019 - 11:58

          I saw the gantry before the Bexley road exit but it didn't seem to have any sensors or maybe I didnt notice it. And on the same gantry towards the left and right which leans over the kingsgrove road entry and exit does have sensors and cameras. I did find that weird last time I saw it:/

          Yup agreed I adding tolls to that section of the road is just utter rubbish. Guess I'll be heading towards stoney creek road :(

    • hmac on 21/01/2019 - 00:15

      the tunnel section that leads to the airport will be tolled from 2020 according to the signs they had tonight

  • danielkcheung on 20/01/2019 - 20:44

    Nice! Extra $28 for me :)

  • bob19 on 20/01/2019 - 20:44
    +15

    It has been available forever.
    Also OPs words that he "was pleasantly surprised with a few hundred dollars back in refunds" sound at least strange.
    How can it be a surprise, if you have to specifically apply for the refund on a regular basis and if you don't do it timely, you don't get the refund, as it expires after some time.
    How could it be a surprise?
    Also, to get a few hundred back you need to travel regularly.

    • sharetrader on 21/01/2019 - 17:00

      I know. It's been around forever. Life got busy.

      Wanted to share some good karma to folks who forgot like me. When life gets busy with a health crisis everything logical, normal and rational gets thrown out.

      Etoll statement got sent to spam.

      I don't personally travel frequently on M5 but I gave my extended family electronic tags to use in the past because they were too lazy to signup to cashback.

  • BargainKen on 20/01/2019 - 20:46

    41 cents? Damn I remember when it was only 20cents… yeah I'm old.

  • crazyperpman on 20/01/2019 - 21:34
    +4

    Is this not a dupe?

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/324993

    • berry580 on 21/01/2019 - 07:44
      +1

      Yes it is a dupe. We're being treated like goldfishes.

  • Heybargain on 20/01/2019 - 21:59

    I lodge a cashback every quarter I get my etoll statement. Maybe you’re not receiving statements forgetting that you can claim your cashback?

  • justcallmeboss on 20/01/2019 - 22:03
    +1

    Thank god, no tolls in Perth!

    • Xiaomi on 21/01/2019 - 07:19

      boss

  • Bid Sniper on 20/01/2019 - 22:09
    +2

    Glad my commute no longer includes toll roads.

    Fleecing the working class.

  • tightm8 on 20/01/2019 - 22:09
    +3

    No offence OP, but this is like me posting 'Get 10% off recent purchases made in Australia when leaving the country'

  • R-Man on 20/01/2019 - 22:16

    Why do a cashback instead of just reducing the toll to the "GST" amount?

    • tonyjg on 20/01/2019 - 22:47
      +5

      Because Transurban gets the full amount, don’t pat any tax, and this ‘cashback’ just reduces the amount from the taxpayer, handed over by the govt

      So who loses ? The taxpayer

      • odysseus on 21/01/2019 - 00:18
        +3

        Plus it means that only those who bother to claim get the benefit, meaning it doesn't cost the government as much. Just like those cashback promotions on sales, there are always people who don't bother, lose the paperwork, aren't in a position to and so on.

  • juzz0 on 20/01/2019 - 23:08

    Is this the whole ‘no beep no toll until 2020’ thing that’s advertised on the motorway?

    • wonderboy on 21/01/2019 - 10:55

      That's just a new toll booth. It won't start charging until 2020.

  • Cheapskate Paul on 20/01/2019 - 23:12
    +4

    We have an ongoing special in South Australia where you can drive on all the roads for free. Socialism at its best!

    Of course, that means we have to share the roads with poor people, but such is life.

    • Wallyt99 on 20/01/2019 - 23:39

      Aren’t all people in South Australia poor?

    • littlegreenman on 21/01/2019 - 07:23
      -2

      That's why some of your motorways only go in one direction. Couldn't afford the second half…

      • muzzamo on 21/01/2019 - 08:35
        +2

        That was fixed years ago.

        Source: Typying this on a bus on the Southern Expressway right now. Can see cars going both ways.

  • strike1 on 20/01/2019 - 23:46

    Thanks OP!

  • MSG on 21/01/2019 - 00:07

    Hey, election soon…

  • bola2000 on 21/01/2019 - 07:41
    +1

    The tolls saga is pretty shocking in NSW, in my views it created inequality if you are a regular users of M5 compared to others toll users such as M2, M7 and now M4. Such an important roads should be owned by government and provided them free to the public, but is too late now same with the electricity once it sold to private we have to pay for the price. So what is next? Australian Water? Trains? buses? National Parks, ferries, etc aahhh is already happening so much money to make!!! The temptations are too strong to resist, welcome to Commercial Economy with weak government. Did I mention NBN?

    • Cheapskate Paul on 22/01/2019 - 19:39

      Water has been privatised in the UK. Trains also. Buses have been privatised in many places, including Adelaide. NBN would be sold by the Libs as soon as it's finished if they get a chance.

      I blame the voters. Toll roads were comprehensively rejected at a South Australian election about 20 years ago. No political party would dare even suggest tolls here, thank (insert preferred deity here).

  • b3au on 21/01/2019 - 07:58
    +2

    Just a reminder that by opting into cashback on the M5, any tolls spent on the M5 don't count towards the Toll Relief program.

  • Zekealot on 21/01/2019 - 09:13

    Not everyone has been a member for ever. I only knew about the Toll relief (but it doesn't apply to me). I use the m5 every weekend though so this is certainly newsworthy to me

  • neonlight on 21/01/2019 - 09:20
    +1

    Poor people don't drive remember that from government

  • ChatCPT on 21/01/2019 - 09:23
    +2

    Not a deal but seems people actually forgot about this and are going back to save money! So this cant be classified a forum post either. We need a third section called Reminders or Stickies

    • Cheapskate Paul on 22/01/2019 - 19:41
      -2

      The deal police have arrived. I'm glad that the OP posted.

      • ChatCPT on 22/01/2019 - 20:36

        The unhelpful have arrived. No ones glad you replied

  • Kamsi on 21/01/2019 - 10:13
    +1

    All I know, reopening M4 toll was a money grabbing idea. The M4 haven't significant make any changes apart from just widening certain areas.

  • bestbargain on 21/01/2019 - 10:54
    +1

    NSW government introduced that "Claim your Toll Relief free registration"

    https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/claim-your-toll-r…

    If you want to claim your Toll Relief registration fee, check your eligibility. Most important you should not apply for M5 Cash back.

    Do your math and act accordingly.

    Thanks.

    Note: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/433390

    • Zenith2k3 on 21/01/2019 - 17:31

      It's cheaper for me to incur cost of gst and rego, rather than $1300 and no rego. Also I use way more than $1300 worth of toll fees per year.

      Thanks for tip, was well worth checking out though.

  • wonderboy on 21/01/2019 - 10:59
    +1

    Got back $500. I don't know what I'll do if this cashback ends.

    • fatal on 21/01/2019 - 14:42

      Not…get back $500?

      • wonderboy on 21/01/2019 - 15:57

        More like not get back $2000 a year.

  • Lord Ra on 22/01/2019 - 06:49

    "M5 tolls paid before the date you register will not be refunded… "
    There goes my plans. The only time I use hese tolls is when I drive to the airport. But thanks for the information OP.

  • HeWhoKnows on 02/02/2019 - 10:34
    +1

    Why repost this?
    Nothing has changed.
    Waste of time.

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