ACT Minister’s Response to Government Buyback or financial compensation

2024, 21 June – Response from Minister Steel on Request to Review Taxi Lease Rates

Note: As ACT Transport Minister, he has a governance obligation to ensure that ACT Taxi Licences are managed as a community asset in alignment with public interest, economic sustainability, and regulatory compliance. This means that he can govern licence allocation, pricing, and regulation to promote fairness and service quality. Fairness has not been achieved as the market is flooded with Uber and commercial vehicles, making the industry on the verge of being unsustainable.

2024 To Minister Steel – Request to Review Taxi Lease Rates

25 Sept 2023 Chris Steel NSW-ACT taxi cross-border arrangement

14 Sept 2023 Minister Steel’s negative response to an ACT taxi licence (plate) buyback scheme in the ACT.

1 July 2023 Letter to Labor Minister Steel – Request Buyback of Perpetual Taxi

14 April 2023 – Steel Letter Response ACT Government considers taxi plates to be a “community asset”

8 Feb 2023 Minister for Transport and City Services Chris Steel respone to Endre Kovacs Chairperson – position on compensation unchanged

March 2020 Shane Rattenbury to E Kovacs – justification for reform

2020 Andrew Barr to Endre Kovacs acknowledging financial pressures placed on plate owners

2019 – Alistair Coe Leader of the Opposition Supporting Compensation

2017 ACTTPOA Chairman P. Button Letter to Gordon Ramsey Attorney General Requesting Partial Buy Back of perpetual taxi plates