The new coalition today announced the coalition agreement, which contains a number of important matters for motorists.
The bullet is through the church and Rutte IV has announced his plans. For motorists, the most important thing is that there should be a kilometer charge in 2030. This seems a long way off, but this long time is needed to prepare things technically and to be able to phase out the current taxes. Paying per kilometer replaces mrb and bpm, and, for the few places in the Netherlands where this is the case, also for tolls. And reducing the bpm takes time, if you don’t want to have problems with the residual value of the existing fleet. Not entirely coincidentally, this timetable is the same as that of the mobility coalition’s plan this summer.
Paul de Waal van de Bovag also recognizes this a lot from their plans from earlier this year, which were clearly used as a handle. “But the best thing is that the taboo of paying differently for mobility has been removed, and that the bpm and mrb will finally disappear. And it seems a long way off, given the complexity of the inputs, this is a realistic timeline.” He does, however, warn against the fine print: “We have always put a lot of effort into burden-neutral working. The motorist may not reverse at the bottom of the line. The agreement now refers to tax neutrality for the government. And that’s something different. Then you would also pass on the costs of imports in the kilometer price, and we are against that. That should be a general investment, not a cost that you have to pass on to the motorists. So we keep our finger on the pulse there.” Han ten Broeke, general chairman of the Bovag, is also broadly pleased with what the coalition agreement says: “The taboo has been removed! That is good and that is necessary: the current car tax system is unsustainable, unfair and inhibits the greening.”
No rush hour levy
It is also important that the new cabinet does not want to make the kilometer charge a place and time-bound. So no rush hour. It is also important that the agreement contains a target that from 2030 only ZEV cars will be sold new. So electric cars, or cars on hydrogen or with solar cells.
The incentive for electric cars remains, also for used cars. It is not yet going into details. The roll-out of good (fast) charging facilities must also be accelerated.
Bpm exemption for delivery vans disappears
What is disappearing is the BPM exemption for delivery vans. This exemption will be phased out in three steps from 1 January 2024 to zero in 2026. After this, the regular bpm rate for delivery vans will also apply to entrepreneurs. The exemption in the bpm for electric delivery vans will continue to exist. This is a considerable increase in the tax burden for entrepreneurs, if only because the CO2 emissions from delivery vans are relatively high.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl