Back to 4 percent additional tax
The additional tax for electric cars must be reduced. In fact, they should be returned to the 2018 level. Those are not our words, but – not entirely surprising – those of the VZR interest group.
The Association of Business Drivers (VZR) calls on the next government to thoroughly revise the additional tax rates for electric cars. According to VZR, the rates should even be reduced to the 2018 level. In 2018, you paid a 4 percent additional charge for private use of an electric car. According to VZR, a thorough reduction in the additional tax should contribute to the sale of electric cars in the Netherlands.
This year you will pay a 22 percent additional tax for cars with a combustion engine, including (plug-in) hybrids. The additional tax for electric cars this year is still 16 percent, although that rate applies up to a threshold amount of €30,000. Above that you pay a 22 percent additional tax. This graduated distribution also applies in 2024. In 2025 you will pay a 17 percent additional tax on the first €30,000. From 2026, the additional tax for EVs must be brought into line with that of cars with a combustion engine. According to VZR, the current system is far from ideal.
VZR believes that the stagnant sales of new electric cars can at least partly be attributed to the current ‘high additional tax rates’. In addition, VZR says that the Netherlands “is in danger of losing its position as a leader in the electric mobility revolution” and that increasing the additional tax for EVs in the future will have a direct and negative impact on the CO2 targets that the Netherlands has set for itself.
As of 2019, the additional tax rates for electric cars were increased. Just like in 2018, you paid 4 percent additional tax in 2019, but no longer on the total value of the car but on the first €50,000. In 2020, the additional tax rate went to 8 percent (for the first €45,000) and in 2021 to 12 percent (up to the first €40,000). This trend will be continued in 2022. From that year onwards you paid 16 percent additional tax, but only on the first €35,000.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl