Scheme overview - Background information
The Queensland Fuel Subsidy Scheme
The Queensland Fuel Subsidy Scheme is designed to ensure Queenslanders enjoy the benefit of an 8.354 cent per litre saving on eligible fuel purchases.
Queensland motorists automatically receive the benefit of the Subsidy as the Subsidy is paid directly to fuel retailers (including your local petrol stations) who pass it on by reducing the price of the fuel they sell by the amount of the Subsidy.
The Subsidy is also paid to people who purchase fuel in bulk from distributors at the unsubsidised rate, which is delivered directly into the running tanks of their vehicles, or delivered directly from their storage site. These people are referred to as Bulk End Users (BEUs). Licensed retailers and BEUs can claim the Subsidy from the Office of State Revenue for types of motorspirit and diesel.
However, between 1 July 2000 and 31 May 2006, the Subsidy for diesel was limited to diesel engine road vehicles that were designed solely or principally for transporting persons, goods or animals by public road.
Consequently, vehicles such as concrete pumping trucks, mobile cranes, drilling rigs, elevating work platforms and street sweepers etc. were not eligible vehicles and were not entitled to the benefit of any Subsidy during this period.
On 1 June 2006, the definition of a diesel engine road vehicle changed to allow such vehicles to receive the Subsidy but only for the diesel used whilst travelling on a public road.
Diesel engined vehicles that are conditionally registered or are of a kind that would be eligible for conditional registration in Queensland, are not eligible for the Subsidy on the diesel they use.
Note: Users of off-road diesel for vehicles such as tractors, skid steer loaders (bob cats), back hoes and earthmoving equipment, etc. are not eligible vehicles as they do not satisfy the previous or current definition of a diesel engine road vehicle.
