WHEN boutique beer label Little Creatures launched its Fitzroy restaurant last month, the managers realised that its inner-city location could pose problems.While the company was happy to pay for the bikes, which retail for around $1000 and are available to customers for short trips, a new tax proposal from Bicycle Victoria would mean that employees could be given a huge incentive to ride to work.
Under the scheme, workers could claim up to $1500 of the cost of a bike and riding equipment as a tax-free income, provided they log at least 25 kilometres a week commuting.
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This remind me of buying a bicycle in The Netherlands in the nineties. You could buy a bicycle or a computer at work which was deducted from your wages before tax so you had huge tax benefits, that's maybe why there are so many bicycles there ;) The average Dutch person has 2 bicycles! And we are still pretty Dutch although living in Australia now for almost 5 years, as we still have 5 bicycles for the two of us...
Typical Dutch bike called a "oma fiets" (grandmothers bike) You don't need lots of gears as everything is flat and nobody is wearing these tight fluorescent clothes either as you just go to school or work thus wearing your normal clothes...
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