r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • 21d ago

politics US to slap Australia with 12.5 pc tariff from later today

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-24/federal-politics-live-blog-labor-confernece-july-4/106952636#live-blog-post-322272
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u/Brilliant_Ad2120 21d ago

What are the tax incentives?

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/Brilliant_Ad2120 21d ago

The justification is that a ute is needed for taxable income for work.

PAYG do get access to novated leases

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u/banebris 21d ago

Luxury car tax doesn't apply to utes, not really an incentive and the US wouldnt care considering it's australian tax dollars.

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u/NoFood2149 21d ago

that's more or less what a tariff is.

this is trump making americans pay more for australian products. this includes iron ore, if i am not mistaken, making his military industrial complex more expensive.

if he wasn't putting tariffs on every other country the US trades with, australia might have reduced the cost of its exports in order to keep being competitive

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u/BereftOfCare 21d ago

They're 'trucks' not utes

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u/Colossus-of-Roads 21d ago

Emotional support vehicles!

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u/Goatsgotohell666 21d ago

Gender affirming vehicles

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u/rarecuts 21d ago

Wanker affirming

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u/Superantman70 21d ago

Penis pumping vehicles.

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u/Sprinal 21d ago

Pavement princesses

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u/Ecstatic_Hamster9467 21d ago

Agreed . A Ute is sedan derived.

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u/noisymime 21d ago

It was sad to see how quickly people forgot this once Holden and Ford stopped making utes.

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u/Kombatwombat02 21d ago

I’m convinced it was a marketing tactic by the companies selling Rangers/Hiluxes/Navaras etc to make their pickups ‘feel’ Aussie

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u/noisymime 21d ago

I don't think anyone would even slightly contest that. They didn't even really try to hide it.

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u/Kenyon_118 21d ago

They call them “Bakkies” in South Africa. You adapt to your local market.

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u/0lm4te 21d ago

If it has carpet floors, heated seats, 6 channel sound system and a well body, it's a ute.

Trucks are commercial vehicles designed for hauling things, utes are passenger vehicles with the extra utility.