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By AA | Moderator | 844 Posts | 20 January 2011 at 3:55pm

I was interested in the unbundled price of fuel in respect to the different taxes added per litre.

How much and what are the individual tax components that the Government and associated bodies add to petrol today?

Lin

From the "Ask Jack" archive - 14 December 2009

jbiddle
By jbiddle | Community Member | 1657 Posts | 20 January 2011 at 4:48pm

Aside from the current 22 cents in GST paid per litre of petrol, there are additional fixed taxes of 52.5 cents per litre. These are made up of:

42.5c National Land Transport Fund (all monies dedicated to transport funding)
9.34c ACC levy
0.66c Local Authorities Petroleum Tax (note, this is not a regional fuel tax)
0.025c Petroleum Fuels Monitoring Levy

More information is available from the Ministry of Economic Development website.