Our Prime Minister is a true politician.
After the public outcry this last week over
her statement that New Zealand is not facing a Cost of Living crisis, she has
now announced that the government will be removing 25 cents of tax per litre from the
cost of petrol to make things easier for people. For three months, anyway.
Nothing was said about the rising cost of housing,
electricity and food, as our inflation rate skyrockets.
The majority of our petrol cost is tax, with Goods and Service
Tax being payable on the total amount (a long standing issue – paying tax on a
tax), and the price had reached over $3.00 a litre (roughly a quarter of a
gallon).
I was happy yesterday to see petrol companies had taken it
on board as well, not only reducing the tax cost but also their own profit
margin. Using my 6 cent/litre grocery
voucher brought the cost down to $2.60 for me when I fuelled up yesterday.
It was still an expensive exercise, but cheaper than it
would have been the day before.
Our supermarket is still experiencing delivery delays and
each week it seems a different set of shelves lies almost empty. Covid isolation rules are slowly being
relaxed and the general feeling seems to be that covid is reaching its peak, so
hopefully things will soon return to normal again.
The sun is shining this morning and we are expecting another
hot day (up to the late 20s again). I
will do all my housework stuff this morning, and am heading off to see a family
member this afternoon to do some family tree research. Should be fun.
Margaret 😊
Whatever minor inconveniences we are facing, and whatever we have to pay for gas, we don't have bombs raining down on our heads, nor are we forced to leave our country, everything we owned and all the people we knew, so we have NOTHING to complain about.
ReplyDeleteOur gas is about a dollar a litre cheaper than yours. There is tax on tax here too when it come to petrol. Good luck with the genealogy.
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a good day researching family history with your family member. I'm hopeless when it comes to keeping straight second and third cousins etc.. and leave it all to my youngest sister who actually enjoys doing it.
ReplyDeleteI thought gas prices were high here but they're not as bad as yours!! Unfortunately our provincial gov. refuses to lower the taxes. Middle son was horrified when he filled his truck up to the tune of $170.00.
World Wide Inflation... *Thank You Putin* &(*#$%^&(^$#%^**(%^%%^&
ReplyDeleteOf course, our Gas Hikes did not start with Putin. As soon as our *Uncle Joe* took office, he began bowing to the crazy *New Green Deal* loons, and cut off our pipe line and make so many onerous rules, it is hard for gas companies to supply us gas.
The *New Green Deal* people are loons, because there is no way a country can fully go *green,* before having the means to do so. They want to cut off all petroleum products BEFORE having enough 'green energy' to run our country.
Anyone with 1/2 a brain, knows... Life doesn't work that way! Before you cut off one supply, you must have a fully functioning new supply, in place. Duhhhhhhhh....
So, our Inflation across the board, was raging, even before Putin the mad man, began his reign of terror.
Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
🌷🌺🌷Gentle hugs🌷🌺🌷
Times have changed, for sure. I have lived through a few recessions in my long life, but so far I still feel that the worst was the 2008 one. Hopefully we don't revisit that.
ReplyDeleteAt least reducing the fuel tax will help people getting to and from work and those taking children to and from school. I do wish the overall cost of living could go down though.
ReplyDeleteYes, I go with River. Ingo has to drive to work, that makes nearly 80km each working day.
ReplyDeleteIt is unfair, kinda, towards people like me who can work from home.
David sure has a point, too.
Well, and you as well, enjoy the warm day and family with research! :-)
Hope you had a good afternoon... I am back and forth to Rotorua at the moment helping a friend get to medical appointments as she currently can't drive, so I am glad of the reprieve, albeit temporary.
ReplyDeleteIf you have a Gold Card, you can join Kiwi Fuel Cards and get an even bigger discount..https://www.kiwifuelcards.co.nz/
Stay safe
Blessings
Maxine
It's the same here in UK, you are taxed on the money you earn and then taxed on what you spend, enjoy your afternoon visit.
ReplyDeleteWe pay over $4 per gallon so not as expensive as there. But everything is going upmand up...and I dont know how farmers are going to deal with all the extra costs.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy your visit.
What Poppypatchwork didn't mention is that diesel fuel here is £2 on some places ie about $4NZ. In many places in rural UK oil is also used for heating and the price of that has, I'm told, doubled recently. There is little tax on it compared with road fuel. As David said in the first comment though, we don't have bombs raining down on us yet.
ReplyDeleteI love your new header photo by the way. You always have cracking shots up there.
We're watching the price of gas creep up in our small town, too...right now $4.09/gallon, but so much higher in big cities. My heart about stopped when I quickly worked out the math conversion liters to gallons...truly, $12/ gallon?! Oh my...
ReplyDeleteYes, some shelves are looking a bit empty here as well...I can always tell by what's missing (canned goods, pasta, bread, milk) that families are beginning to stock up and feeling a anxious about what's happening in the world. I'm with them...adding a few things to food storage as well. Still, watching the news just adds to my "brain noise" as they say...so much to worry about. Hope the family history visit went well...while I haven't linked to anyone famous, it's always fun to try and see how far back I can get. Mary
Gas is going up in price here too...and groceries:(
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