Much less bpm was paid in the first three quarters of 2020 than in previous years, BNR reports. This has two main reasons.
‘Average CO2 emissions from new cars have fallen’, we wrote earlier today. It is very easy to make clear that this European news also applies to the Netherlands. After all, the tax on passenger cars and motorcycles is, for passenger cars at least, completely dependent on CO2 emissions.
The lower CO2 emissions of new cars do not appear to be without effect. Figures from VWE make it clear that a new car in the first three quarters of 2020 averaged € 4,566 in bpm. In 2019 this was € 5,345, while 2018 ended with € 4,909 between the two most recent years.
The cars that will be licensed this year are therefore on average more economical than those of 2019. Given the enormous increase in the number of available EVs and plug-in hybrids, that is not too great a surprise.
Nor is it surprising that far fewer cars were sold in 2020. Over the first three quarters, VWE came to a total of 249,171 units, no less than 25.8 percent less than the 335,593 units of last year. In 2018, even more was sold in the first nine months: 363,311.
For those who want to know: 2016 is known in the Dutch car world as an absolute disaster year for new sales. In that year, 287,076 cars were sold in the first nine months, more than 15 percent more than this year.
The total of bpm euros collected in 2020 so far remains at € 1,137,692,303. That seems like a huge amount (and it is), but it is no less than 36.6 percent less than in 2019. At that time, the bpm generated almost € 1.8 billion, just like in 2018.