Taxi Tax News & Views from Taxi Tax Australia

From: The Daily Telegraph.  UBER is hiking its fees in Australia for its ride-sharing service, with the company introducing a new booking fee and an increase to its minimum fares due to “operational costs”. The new 55 cent booking fee, ...

From: Sunshine Coast Daily. OPINION: New laws designed to ‘level the playing field’ between ridesharing services and taxi services will now see Uber drivers slugged hundreds of dollars in extra fees. This is nothing more than a new tax on ...

From: NT News.  A SCRUB fire in Leanyer jumped the fence into private property yesterday afternoon, damaging seven cars owned by the Blue Taxi Company. The cars were in various states of repair, and most appeared to have been decommissioned ...

From: Yahoo7 News. A Pakenham father says he and his wife came within metres of being killed when a taxi slammed through their bedroom window in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police are investigating whether the driver fell asleep ...

From: 9 News. A taxi driver will face court accused of inappropriately touching and kissing three female passengers on the NSW Central Coast. The women hailed the cab about 4.30am on Sunday in Gosford before the driver allegedly touched the ...

From: The Cairns Post. NEITHER Uber nor the taxi industry is impressed with the Palaszczuk Government’s new requirements for Queensland’s ride-sharing services. The state government has passed legislation requiring Uber drivers to obtain a new licence and have their vehicles ...

From: ABC News. Changes to centralise two regional taxi company’s call centres to Tasmania has created anxiety with regular customers with disabilities who say they don not feel safe. Wodonga-based Disability Advocacy and Information Service’s Executive officer, Martin Butcher said ...

From: The Sydney Morning Herald. One of Australia’s wealthiest and most high profile investors, Hamish Douglass, appears to have engaged in “new economy heresy” – calling out the ride sharing company Uber as being a Ponzi scheme and one that ...

From: The Geelong Advertiser. POLICE are hunting a pair of thugs who attacked a taxi in Geelong’s east. Detectives said a taxi driver was waiting for a customer on Boundary Rd, Whittington, when he was set upon and chased though ...

From: The Courier Mail.  UBER drivers will be required to hold an annual license under new laws passed in State Parliament overnight. The introduction of the license for booked hire services was among a raft of reforms aimed at creating ...