Question Without Notice No. 196 asked in the Legislative Council on 29 March 2018 by Hon Peter Collier
Parliament: 40 Session: 1
TAXI AND CHARTER OPERATORS — LEVY
196. Hon PETER COLLIER to the minister representing the Minister for Transport:
I refer to the proposed legislation for taxi reform following the minister's comments made in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, 21 March 2018, on the proposed 10 per cent levy to be applied to all taxi and charter operators and that the levy will now be modified to exclude all regional taxi operators outside Perth and the Peel–Harvey area.
(1) Can the minister confirm that taxi or charter operators who do transfers between regional Western Australia and the Perth and Peel region also will be exempt from this levy?
(2) Can the minister clarify whether all charter operators will be paying the levy?
Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:
I thank the Leader of the Opposition for some notice of the question.
The answer to that question does not appear in my folder. If it comes in towards the end of question time, I will read it then. I also advise the member that the only question I have from him in my folder is question 187. I am not sure whether the member has asked any further questions, but that is just in case he has.
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(1) I can confirm that all taxi and charter fares that start from or finish in the defined Perth and Peel area will be subject to the levy.
(2) All charter operators state-wide will be required to pay the levy on any on-demand passenger fares that start from or finish in the defined Perth Peel area. Any scheduled tourism services will not be classified as an on-demand service and therefore will not be subject to the levy.