Car sales drop after Rudd's FBT changes The Government's last cut (actually a tax grab) didn't go so well: CAR dealers say up to 1000 sales have been cancelled since Kevin Rudd proposed changes to fringe benefit tax concessions for motorists, with hundreds of job losses likely. A survey of dealers by the Australian Automobile Dealers Association in the two weeks since the Prime Minister's July 16 announcement has found 75 per cent of about 160 members have had vehicle orders cancelled... Almost three-quarters of members said they would have to sack between one and five staff as a result of the sales slump. If this were extrapolated across the association's 3600 members, up to 13,500 jobs could be lost in the sector... South Australian Transport Minister Tom Koutsantonis said he agreed with state Premier Jay Weatherill that the tax changes were bad for the automotive industry, and for Holden's carmaking plant in Adelaide.