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• waiving the annual Taxi Industry FINANCIAL RELIEF FOR AN
Security Levy in 2019/20 - save OWNER/OPERATOR OF 1 LIMOUSINE
$398.40 - but this fee has been
on-hold for many years. 6 months Driver Authorisation $ 77.05

• temporarily extending the refund 6 months of Licence Renewal $ 93.87
policy for holders of booked
hire service licences so they can 6 months Booking Entity $ 132.27
receive a pro-rata refund if they JobKeeper for 6 months
choose to surrender their licence @ $3000 per month $18,000.00
- save $110.
TOTAL ASSISTANCE $18,303.19
• waiving fees for operators to
cancel and re-register their
vehicles - save $30.90.
HUSBAND AND WIFE TAXI OPERATOR
They are graciously not charging the WITH 10 VEHICLES OPERATING IN BRISBANE
annual Taxi Industry Security Levy - Leasing licences from licence owners
that they have already been waiving
for the past 3 years - so it's not a FINANCIAL RELIEF for 6 months $18,309.00
saving - it's just an extra charge that is for 10 sets of plates if they de-register their vehicles $ 309.00
not being re-introduced.
plus one person in the couple can receive JobKeeper
In summary, the Queensland @ $3000 per month for 6 months $18,000.00
Transport and Main Roads (TMR) have
only offered around $300 to drivers They don’t employ any staff so they are not eligible for the federal
and operators. Nothing substantial cash flow assistance for business.
has been offered by government.
TYPICAL EXPENSES for 6 months = $135,408.00
The Booking companies receive
no assistance - most of them are • Lease – $700 per vehicle per month $42,000.00
waiving or heavily reducing their (most operators are not paying this and the
fees, but they are not getting any licence owners aren’t getting lease money
compensation for doing so. that they require to live or pay loans)
Minister Bailey recognises that our • Insurance - $1909.76 per vehicle for 6 months $19,097.60
industry is an essential service • Registration - $2,140 per vehicle for 6 months $21,400.00
and that passenger numbers are
down by around 95%. Yet what the • Usual Booking company fees – $881.84
government has decided to offer per vehicle per month $52,910.40
to the Queensland Personalised (most booking companies have reduced
Passenger Transport Industry this cost and now the booking company is
does absolutely nothing to show suffering from the lack of this income)
appreciation of the work that our
industry provides. And these are just the main figures. We haven't even included
loan repayments and every day running costs such as; vehicle
A paultry $300 for 6 months is just not maintenance, fuel, equipment levies and PPE for drivers.
enough!

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