Subsidy and tax benefit when purchasing an electric car

Frits Pieper
20 dec 2018

If it were up to the government and the mobility sector, there would be two million electric vehicles on Dutch roads by 2030 and only electric cars would be sold. To achieve this, there would need to be 1,8 million charging points throughout the country by then.

For comparison: at the moment the Netherlands has only 22 thousand fully electric cars and there are only 37 thousand public charging points. It is also no secret that fully electric cars are still relatively expensive to buy compared to petrol and diesel cars.

But that will change. At least, if it is up to the government.

Subsidies for the purchase of zero-emission cars and tax benefits should make 'green' driving more attractive. Driving a petrol or diesel car will become more expensive, due to an increase in fuel prices and motor vehicle tax.

You can read this in a article from the NOS,

Purchase subsidy

If you purchase a fully electric car privately in 2021, 'The Hague' will add 6000 euros. This subsidy will be reduced to 2200 euros in 2030. For business drivers, a purchase subsidy of 3440 euros applies in 2021, decreasing to 1830 euros in 2024.

Bpm and motor vehicle tax

Until 2025, you will not pay bpm if you purchase a fully electric car. After that, you will pay a one-off fee of 350 euros. From 2025, you will also pay motor vehicle tax as a fully electric driver. Until then, there is still an exemption. For companies with electric cars or charging points, the environmental investment deduction (MIA) will expire in 2020.

There will also be a package of measures to stimulate driving a second-hand electric car. Driving on fossil fuels will probably become more expensive. In 2020, the excise duty on a liter of petrol and diesel will increase by one cent. Diesel drivers will pay another cent extra per liter in 2023. This will mainly affect the wallets of the real mileage eaters. If you drive a petrol or diesel car, you will soon also pay more motor vehicle tax.

Noose for the Empire

The government has not yet come up with a conclusive answer to the question of how the tax revenues that will fall in the long term can be compensated. The solution will most likely consist of some form of road pricing. Ultimately, the driver will pay for the bulk of the costs associated with all the measures.

Whether the proposed measures will actually have the desired effect remains to be seen. Even with subsidies, you will still pay a good ten thousand euros more for an electric VW Golf than for the petrol version.

In our view, electric driving only has a future if manufacturers can produce their electric vehicles for the same price as their vehicles with a petrol or diesel engine. We believe that the fuel cell will eventually win over the battery, and that hydrogen cars are the future.

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