Increase brandstofaccijns remains

Posted on 28-05-2014 at 7:50 by sir_smokalot – 47 Comments”

After clear deliberation, Eric Wiebes, our minister of Finance, decided that the beginning of this year, increased excise duties will not be reversed. And no one looked surprised.

The Tax authorities did on his insistence research, which together with benzineproducenten tried to determine whether there has been, since the last increase grenseffecten occur, and if so, how big they are. The conclusion of this study is that it is not certain that this grensefecten occur.

This is according to the Volkskrant, the contents of a public letter of Wiebes to the Second Chamber, that today in the Council of ministers is handled. We hear they are now with the opposition and with the BOVAG, the knife sharpening… But that doesn’t change his conclusion. If the government now says no at a reduced rate of excise duty is not for the hand that she in the short term, suddenly turning.

We expect the skepticism in the comments, which is not very surprising, considering the error of the CBS earlier this week about dieselverkoop. This is ammunition for the opposition the power good calculations to make to doubt.

Photo: Dutch gas station, autojunk.nl