Second Room: car taxes be fairer?
Posted on 31-03-2016 at 9:39 by RubenPriest – 51 Comments”
State secretary Eric Wiebes of the liberal democrats tapped recently a second autobrief for the Second Room. Following this letter, there was yesterday a debate took place. Go there now again change things?
Rules come and rules go. Nothing is as draaikonterig as the laws pertaining to the Dutch automobile. Is the one bill approved, then you should not be surprised when the next change is already tapped.
Wiebes was yesterday endorsed from the Room to the additional tax for cars with an internal combustion engine is equal to pull. Electric and hybrid cars have on the other hand more attractive for the Dutch citizen. Cars with an exhaust are the new cigarette. This can be achieve through a lucrative bijtellingstarief or, as discussed in The Hague, with a reduced aanschafbelasting. It would correspond to a reduction of about 12%. Only full electric cars go with the current system in the 4 percent category. Hybrids by 2017, thanks to the presence of a conventional motor, 22% of list price in the lease. “6 billion by the dimple, that we are not going to do it again,” said Wiebes.
A large part of the group can see the plans. Pieter Omtzigt of the CDA places a small comment at the proposal. He wants “certainty” that the regular car market is not at its hole going through all of the tax advantages for green cars. A scenario that we saw with cars like the Outlander PHEV, which for a long time, the leaseslet of the Netherlands. Fortunately there is still someone to the rest of the industry, there in The Hague. Van Weyenberg of D66, however, speaks about a ‘dirty letter’. According to him, by this system-less electric cars. GroenLinks found that the proposed exemption from BPM and road tax for electric cars should be increased to a list price of 100,000 euros. Happy Wiebes nothing. This causes a considerable disturbance of the market as a more expensive EV like a Tesla a huge tax advantage this would gain. Not honestly so. The permanent exemption for EV’s is the current plan to a max of 50,000 euros. The debate will be in the week of 5 to 7 april continued.
Photo: Brabus Tesla Model S