2031 at the earliest
The outgoing cabinet had set road pricing as a target on the horizon for 2030. That year will not be achieved in any case, says outgoing State Secretary Marnix van Rij. This is because road pricing has been declared controversial.
The Rutte IV cabinet took up a well-known idea: paying according to the use of the car, popularly known as mileage tax or road pricing. The government that fell earlier this summer had put a red circle around 2030 for its introduction. Although the cabinet would no longer be there anyway, everything was done to investigate what road pricing should look like with a target of 2030. Now 2030 will not be achieved in any case, because the subject has been declared controversial by the House of Representatives.
This means that the outgoing cabinet is no longer allowed to continue working on road pricing. Everything that has been done so far is put on hold for the time being. Van Rij (Finance) thinks it is a shame that it has come to this. According to him, it has already been delayed for a year and that could of course be even more. Van Rij according to ANP: “Suppose there is a cabinet around mid-2024. You need a year and a half for the legislative process and then five years for the implementation. So yes, then it will be January 1, 2031 at the earliest.”
A subsequent government may decide to postpone road pricing even further or even ignore it entirely. However, Rutte IV has ensured that there is something in return, which means that the plans cannot simply be scrapped. Road congestion is part of plans that the Rutte IV cabinet has submitted in Brussels to claim billions from the European corona recovery fund. If those plans change, the Netherlands may miss out on money.
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