The price of Australian roads is a costly one, according to new findings by the Productivity Commission, and is set to only increase with the coming years.
According to the Australian Government’s independent research and advisory body, the average vehicle is charged more than $1300 by the state and federal bodies each year, with the largest component of that fee being the 40 cents tax paid on every litre of petrol.
The good news is that the government spends approximately the same amount of money on road infrastructure as they receive from its drivers but the bad news, according to a recent Deloitte report, is that the cost of congestion is tipped to increase that driver fee by 5% annually over the next 15 years.