Alternative inclusion: pay according to use?
Posted on 11-08-2015 at 15:20 by MauritsH – 38 Comments”
The current bijtellingsstelsel is aimed at private use from 500 kilometres per year. How much a business rider right there above it is does not matter, the inclusion will have to be paid. Else can it be?
Yes, that could indeed. Already been ideas suggested about the use of one fixed bijtellingstarief of 11% for each business driver applies, regardless of the emissions of the relevant lease. As was advocated was, wages in kind are taxed according to the value in the economic traffic.
The lower bijtellingspercentages on the basis of environmental objectives, would legally not tenable, as the value in the economic traffic still plays a role (the higher the catalogue value of the car, the higher the tax), but the percentage of all of. Moreover, it is still the question of the extent to which low tax, the eco-friendly drive stimulates, lot of (plug-in) hybrids purely on fossil fuels.
Pay as you go
A possible solution for the aforementioned problems, it is taxing on the basis of the private use of the company car. The more private (lease car drivers) drive, the more taxes need to be levied. Using a GPS unit can be tracked how many miles is private and miles of business to be held, so that the tax authorities insight into when the lease car private is used.
Telematics
Such a technique is included under the heading of ‘telematics’. A telematicabox monitors the driving behaviour and the status and position of the car, so can be easily viewed for what purposes the car is used.
Sensitive tip it is of course privacy. Many motorists want to not that the tax authority or any (public)institution, exactly in the map can bring what he or she posted. On the other hand, are the details of our whereabouts are already transparent through social media, iPhones and other gadgets and programs that will be used daily.
In addition to locations is by means of telematics as possible to the use of cars. Consider, for example mileage, tankstops, driving, made trips and driving time. That allows fleet managers not only possible for cars to keep an eye on, but also to analyze usage. The rider, in turn, has no more to do with red tape as rittenregistratie.
Now a quarter of the (medium to)large companies the use of telematics by smaller companies, the percentage is still much lower. It is therefore expected that the techniques will only continue to develop and that it is not inconceivable that cars eventually, for example, just as aircraft have a black box on board.
Interesting is also the question of whether the read-out information can also be used in a criminal sense, for example, in the case of accidents or for unilateral violations. That would be for a lot of leaserijders can be a reason to refrain from the use of telematics, there will undoubtedly be some legal hurdles to take for it actually get to that point.
Summary
The technique to closely with to be able to keep or a car whether private or business mileage, is already amply represented in the fleets of Dutch companies. The only question is whether and when the tax authorities are indeed transferred to an alternative bijtellingsstelsel that not only ‘fairer’, but also more in line it seems with the charge on the basis of the value in the economic traffic.