Goudie Sandra: Motor Vehicle Sales Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
Goudie Sandra: Motor Vehicle Sales Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
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SANDRA GOUDIE (NZ National—Coromandel) 
: 
 I would like to talk a bit about Part 5 “Miscellaneous provisions”. The first provision is an exemption for car auctioneers which looks eminently sensible. The car auctioneer is exempt from the general auctioneers licensing requirement but has to comply as a registered motor vehicle dealer. 
I see that the levy regulations are in Part 5. That is quite a substantial amendment to the bill and many speeches have remarked on it. Members will recall the compliance cost comments that have already been made. In looking at the bill maybe for the second time the Minister is perhaps taking some cognisance of the fact that there is no compliance cost report. Perhaps she would like to take a call and give us her assessment of the compliance costs that this levy will impose on motor vehicle dealers. We know that 85 percent of businesses in this country employ five people or fewer which is a substantial part of business in this country and we are now putting an added cost on to them. What will be the result of that? Will we have less registration and therefore even more unregistered dealers? United Future is claiming that one-third of those dealing in motor vehicles are unregistered and ACT is claiming two-thirds so we have rather a discrepancy. With the cost to business of the imposed levy the number of unregistered dealers will increase and the absence of a compliance cost report indicates that no analysis of that has been done. There has been no analysis whatsoever of what impact the levy and cost impositions will have on registered motor vehicle dealers. Clearly the one-third and two-third figures suggest a substantial impact and the two-thirds figure is huge. Clearly without a compliance report we know that this Government has not taken any cognisance of that. The effect on consumers will be considerable and their opportunity for redress against unregistered persons dealing in the sale of motor vehicles will be significantly reduced. 
In clause 131 we are also looking at the prescribed fees payable under this Act. If the number of motor vehicle dealers registering is reduced and the disputes tribunal is to be paid for the levy will rise commensurately because we will not have the numbers to be able to afford to continue with that tribunal. 
Jill Pettis 
: Talking about numbers how is it going? 
SANDRA GOUDIE 
: The member is asking me? She should know how it is going but because her Government does not have a compliance cost report it has no idea how it is going. The Government has no idea of business. It will resort to any measures to try to bolster its own ego but in this instance it has not done a compliance cost report. It has not even assessed the impacts on the industry of the increased cost it has imposed on these people. They are just general mums and dads—the average Joe Bloggs and his wife—trying to run a business and they are being undermined by the increased costs imposed by this Government. The Government has put through this levy in an amendment with no submissions on it. It is a major amendment to the bill and no reports have been done on the impacts of it. I believe that to be a serious omission.