Young Thrash Driver 1020 Report post Posted January 9, 2012 Does our government add tax to tyres? Import duties, whatever they call it. It just strikes me that subsidising (or removing the tax from) good quality, good performing tyres would be cheaper (and more sensible) than tipping money into ACC to fix all the people hurt by crashes caused/contributed to by crap tyres. What would the road toll do if every man jack had a set of RE11s.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zenetti 0 Report post Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) There is no duty on tyres any more as there are none that are produced locally. Unfortunately there will always be people out there that want the cheapest tyres possible. If you take a look at the recent stats from the holiday period the majority was caused by terrible driving. When we drove back from NP on Saturday I was amazed at the number of idiots passing coming up to blind corners especially when it was raining. We counted 3 near misses alone, and they were CLOSE! Think oncoming traffic braking and swerving to the left to avoid - it had nothing to do with tyre choice lol. Edited January 9, 2012 by zenetti Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
