Taxation of alternative fuelled vehicles

listermint

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121706243#Comment_121706243

Well no I'm just challenging the notion that you started with and then changed that evs were paying nothing. Wasn't true at the start I'm glad to see you changed tack.

Incidentally I'm paying ev, van and 2 motorcycles tax. Should I get more road as I pay more tax than you ?

waterwelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121706783#Comment_121706783

I never said EV's pay nothing.

Read back my posts and quote where I said it please.

User1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121706686#Comment_121706686

If you compare to London, ULEZ wouldn’t have any effect if the whole country went EV. They are low emission vehicles so they are exempt from paying. A congestion charge would affect all vehicles regardless of their emissions, but it would be very unfair to introduce this in Ireland because our public transport is so bad.

donkey balls

Well he said a congestion charge again this is with the loss of 6 billion in Revenue so I'm assuming charges for EV included so really it's nothing to do with the environment just taxes/levy.

waterwelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121718807#Comment_121718807

Cheaper due largely to how the fuel is taxed though.

In my view it's a hidden incentive to buy an EV.

In time taxation on EV's will have to be higher to compensate the government for what they will be losing on fuel duty and VAT.

In simple terms EV drivers will have to start footing more of the bill for maintaining the roads they drive on.

But that's a while away yet.

Which, in my view, makes buying an EV today an extremely smart choice

1/ prices have been reduced

2/ no great demand so better bargaining power

3/ road maintenance contributions will remain deflated until mass adaptation, which right now seems further away than ever.

ted1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121718847#Comment_121718847

I think they offer some savings to the state in that carbon taxes are avoided and they provide energy security and independence as we are not importing fossil fuels. And hence exporting money from the economy. Thus will be more noticeable as we increase our RES penetration.

mire and more people are going with PV. It’ll be interesting to see how the government deal with loss of revenue there.

as for motor tax. I think we’ll eventually move towards a pay per Km.

waterwelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121718913#Comment_121718913

Pay by weight will be a big part of the mix too I'd say.