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Press, 27 September 1982, Page 25

From lOetota 1982... f@z all whidte 3 a S tames ©z less... <1 pg > tMAWoaB HIK V LPG VEHICLES REPLACED If you run a vehicle of 3.5 tonnes or less on LPG, from 1 October you will no longer have to pay road user tax in advance on kilometres travelled. A sales tax of 4.93 cents per litre will be levied instead and included in the price of LPG at the pump. (Resellers of LPG will be permitted to lift their LPG price by no more than this amount under Regulation 8 of the Price Freeze Regulations 1982.) H The overall fuel cost of running a vehicle OFF-ROAD INDUSTRIAL AND on LPG instead of petrol should, for COMMERCIAL LPG USERS WILL BE most motorists, drop from 53-55 cents ELIGIBLE FOR A REBATE OF SALES to 50 cents per litre. This figure is TAX. worked out by taking the new average Such LPG users as potteries, grain dryers, LPG pump price of 43.5 cents a litre restaurants, fork-lifts... all industrial and and adding the cost of the extra 15% of . commercial users... are entitled to a LPG needed to do the same job as a rebate of either the 4.93 cents a litre sales litre of petrol. tax on LPG purchased, or 9.22 cents per 0 You will be saved the hassle of filling in kilogram. road tax forms, estimating likely If those users run road vehicles on LPG distance to be travelled and finding the and refuel them from the same tank as ready money for advance payments. their off-road uses, they must keep , . separate records for the vehicles and 0 You will no longer need to claim rebates CANNOT claim a re bate for the vehicle on any petrol you’ve used. REFUND OF PORTION OF DISTANCE In the same way that petrol users of motor CHARGE PRE-PAID BUT NOT USED mowers, power boats, chain saws etc are BY OCTOBER Ist. not entitled to a rebate, domestic users of Owners of vehicles 3.5 tonnes and under LPG for cookers, heaters, caravans, heated are entitled to a refund for unused distance swimming pools etc, DO NOT QUALIFY already paid for. FOR THE REBATE. To obtain your refund, apply in writing. VEHICLES OVER 3.5 TONNES WILL Give your vehicle registration plate CONTINUE TO OPERATE UNDER THE number, a statement of the unused distance ROAD USER CHARGE SYSTEM AND, or your speedometer reading as at THEREFORE, WILL ALSO BE ENTITLED 1 October, and enclose your road user TO A REBATE OF THE SALES TAX. charge licence. Send your application to: jr YOU ARE ENTITLED TO A REBATEThe Commissioner of Works, pick fonn (MR 74) available fcom M“ stly the Post Office in January 1983. You can PO Box 12312, Wellington North. apply quarterly _ January 1983 . Issued for your information by THE MINISTRY OF ENERGY <-,*.•082'1