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Why not put all tax on the Fuel? Then you have everything in one tax, exactly the way you want it. Take the bike more often? Benefit immediately. Buy a lighter

Why not put all tax on the Fuel? Then you have everything in one tax, exactly the way you want it. Take the bike more often? Benefit immediately. Buy a lighter vehicle? Benefit immediately. Drive less wasteful? Benefit immediately. It seems like such a system would stimulate only good things.

marsokod 7y ago
I believe the main problem with the tax on fuel (it already exists) is that you cannot make it as progressive as you want. It will be the same percentage regardless of how much fuel you use and so far this proved not good enough to skew the market in favour of the low-emission solutions.
- teekert 7y ago
  It's just not high enough. I find it pretty unfair that I pay the same amount of tax on my familiecar that I use for 10.000 km a year as someone who drives is 100 km per day. I had a citroen C1 once, because the government canceled road tax on such very efficient, small cars. Sadly his law lasted only a couple of years (and it messes a lot with the market value of these cars!). But is was nice that I only paid insurance as long as I didn't drive it. In Poland there is not even a tax on cars, so it is already only in the fuel. It can be pretty nice there to have multiple cars, a big one when you need it, a small one to use a lot. You could even circulate the big one among family, but as it is now in the Netherlands, nobody want to be the owner of the big car.
jorvi 7y ago
Loading all tax into fuel just drives (heh) more and more people into fueling over the border. Fuel already is really expensive in The Netherlands.. €1,77 per liter or €6,73 per gallon, and most of that cost is tax.
- teekert 7y ago
  (Obviously) it should be done EU wide.
  - distances 7y ago
    That's not what EU is for though.
simias 7y ago
Raising the fuel taxes indiscriminately was what sparked the "yellow vest" movement last year. I don't think the French government is in any hurry to try that again, especially since there's already a strike going on right now for the pension reform.
- teekert 7y ago
  If it came with overall tax reductions, especially with road tax reduction, it could be a financially neutral rule for a specific amount of km per year. You could make is so that it then mostly hits people with monstrous cars, not the yellow vest people in their ordinary, perhaps slightly aging cars.

marsokod 7y ago

I believe the main problem with the tax on fuel (it already exists) is that you cannot make it as progressive as you want. It will be the same percentage regardless of how much fuel you use and so far this proved not good enough to skew the market in favour of the low-emission solutions.

teekert 7y ago
It's just not high enough. I find it pretty unfair that I pay the same amount of tax on my familiecar that I use for 10.000 km a year as someone who drives is 100 km per day. I had a citroen C1 once, because the government canceled road tax on such very efficient, small cars. Sadly his law lasted only a couple of years (and it messes a lot with the market value of these cars!). But is was nice that I only paid insurance as long as I didn't drive it. In Poland there is not even a tax on cars, so it is already only in the fuel. It can be pretty nice there to have multiple cars, a big one when you need it, a small one to use a lot. You could even circulate the big one among family, but as it is now in the Netherlands, nobody want to be the owner of the big car.

jorvi 7y ago

Loading all tax into fuel just drives (heh) more and more people into fueling over the border. Fuel already is really expensive in The Netherlands.. €1,77 per liter or €6,73 per gallon, and most of that cost is tax.

teekert 7y ago
(Obviously) it should be done EU wide.
- distances 7y ago
  That's not what EU is for though.

simias 7y ago

Raising the fuel taxes indiscriminately was what sparked the "yellow vest" movement last year. I don't think the French government is in any hurry to try that again, especially since there's already a strike going on right now for the pension reform.

teekert 7y ago
If it came with overall tax reductions, especially with road tax reduction, it could be a financially neutral rule for a specific amount of km per year. You could make is so that it then mostly hits people with monstrous cars, not the yellow vest people in their ordinary, perhaps slightly aging cars.