The Tasmanian Automotive Chamber of Commerce (TACC) has served the automotive industry in Tasmania since 1928.

There had always been a long standing and mutually supportive relationship between TACC and the Victorian Automotive Chamber of Commerce (VACC).

TACC successfully lobbied state government on behalf of members for many years, but times were changing and in 1999 TACC and VACC were amalgamated. This merger offered members a more diverse range of services, while still maintaining a Tasmanian perspective on local issues.

Today we are dedicated to the promotion, representation and preservation of member businesses to local, state and federal governments, as well as the media, consumers and the community.

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Chair:  Michael Grubb, Specialist Auto Hobart
Vice-Chair:  Mark Cooper, Cooper Automotive Mornington

Larry Eaton, Motorworks Motorcycles
Peter Killick, B Select Moonah
Kate Presnell, Kate Presnell Bodyworks
Roger White, Specialist Car Centre

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Coronavirus: Assistance and incentives need to flow to larger businesses

27 MARCH 2020

The Prime Minister’s “business hibernation” announcement on Friday, 27 March has been welcomed in some sectors of the business community, but not by all.

While rental and tax freezes will provide many small and medium enterprises with a necessary respite, many other businesses have been frozen out of assistance thresholds.

The issue for medium and larger businesses in the automotive industry is that those enterprises are the bigger employers and they are having to let go or stand down higher amounts of staff. Recently, one dealer group had let go of more than 400 employees.

And it will get worse.

Medium and large-sized enterprises have costlier rents and bigger outgoings. Federal and State Governments need to protect these businesses as well, along with small-to-medium-sized enterprises. Yet VACC’s preliminary survey results show that approximately 70 percent of VACC-member new-car dealerships are missing out on payroll threshold and cash flow assistance. 

And this was a market that was already experiencing a downturn of almost 12 percent before the Coronavirus situation.

VACC is asking Mr Morrison – when he meets with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg over the coming days to establish the ‘fine print’ of the assistance package – to consider the enormous contribution larger businesses make to the economy and that the Federal Government offers appropriate assistance at this very difficult time.

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