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There's a special excise tax on gasoline for highway and road maintenance. EVs don't pay that tax because they use normal electricity. So Alberta introduced a
by jjmarr 7mo ago
There's a special excise tax on gasoline for highway and road maintenance.
EVs don't pay that tax because they use normal electricity. So Alberta introduced a $200 EV fee to match the average revenue from the excise tax.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-electric-vehicle-tax-1.7132365 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-electric-veh...
- bigstrat2003 7mo agoIt sounds like the more accurate framing, then, is "I'm not getting a tax break for having an EV". Which is disappointing sure, but not outrageous either.
- RevEng 7mo agoThat's the framing but it's also misleading. We are being charged more than a typical ICE driver would pay in gasoline tax. It's also listed as being for road maintenance, but in fact it goes into the general revenue, so it has nothing to do with road maintenance.
- b112 7mo agoThe first part is untrue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475419 The second is not necessarily true.