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Road vehicles are heavily taxed in European countries. I don't have the figures for Germany, but the UK spends £12bn per year on roads, while it collects £25bn
by jdietrich 2y ago
Road vehicles are heavily taxed in European countries. I don't have the figures for Germany, but the UK spends £12bn per year on roads, while it collects £25bn in road fuel duty and £7bn in vehicle excise duty.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/298675/united-kingdom-uk-public-sector-expenditure-transport-by-category/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/298675/united-kingdom-uk...
https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/fuel-duties/ https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/...
https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/vehicle-excise-duty/ https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/...
- V__ 2y agoVehicle, gas and similar taxes are about €50bn in Germany. The cost of the road system is about €70bn. [1] https://www.forschung-und-wissen.de/nachrichten/oekonomie/autos-und-co.-decken-kostenbedarf-des-strassenverkehrs-kaum-13376725 https://www.forschung-und-wissen.de/nachrichten/oekonomie/au...
- taffer 2y agoAccording to a study by the HTW Berlin, Germany collects €50 billion in road taxes and duties, but spends €30 billion on road maintenance and €30 billion on traffic police and road accident victims. Add to this an estimated €10-30 billion in environmental damage due to air and noise pollution.
- threeseed 2y agoThere are also deaths caused by road accidents and health issues caused by pollution. Those have real economic impacts which aren’t being reflected in the true cost of cars.
- okr 2y ago[flagged]