Spain ranks 23rd out of 31 European countries in adopting battery electric vehicles
Spain ranks last among the European countries analyzed in terms of:
tax income of vehicles and fuels, according to the report ‘The good tax guide’ comparing the tax systems for the registration of passenger and commercial vehicles in 31 countries on the continent.
In addition, according to the organization Transport & Environment, responsible for the research, our country stands out among the “worst in Europe”, because it continues to offer “more benefits” to
to the purchase of polluting vehicles than electric cars. The T&E report also addresses the shortcomings it believes the Spanish car tax regime has that do not promote the deployment of electric vehicles in the country.
On the one hand, analysts have emphasized that only
a minority of polluting cars pay the corresponding registration tax at the time of purchase of new vehicles.
“This tax is proportional to the vehicle’s emissions. However, the exemption from registration tax
is at a very high limit (120 grams per kilometer), and the other sections are not restrictive enough, which is why most new vehicles avoid this tax. In the year 2021, only 1.1% of registered vehicles did so under the quota of the fourth tranche (the highest) and only 5.9% did so with the third,” the analysis highlights.
T&E also pointed out that Spain is one of nine European countries out of 31 countries analyzed where plug-in hybrid cars are still fiscally favored and not penalized based on their environmental impact,” despite the fact that demonstrated that
produce polluting emissions for non-systematic circulation in electric mode«.
For this reason, the T&E study concludes that the distinction between plug-in hybrids and battery electricity in Spain is “zero”. In this regard, the study also emphasizes that tax regulation does not make any difference in
VAT deduction for cars “highly polluting” and emission-free.
“This means that companies are discouraged from migrating their fleet to sustainable vehicles. In Belgium, France or Portugal, the amount to be debited depends on the vehicle’s emissions. Spain should follow suit,” said T&E.
“The report’s findings conclude that there is tremendous potential for
modernization of the car tax in Spainwhich to this day, instead of favoring non-polluting vehicles, continues to enforce rules that have become dusty over time,” the organization said.
In this sense, he recommended that the country “urgently” reform the tax on cars, as the figures show that “it is one of the worst in Europe” and he has considered that the government should adjust these taxes “to the current time”. .
“That is, prefer the replacement of
polluting vehicles for clean vehicles and in this way increase the low adoption rate of electric vehicles, while improving air quality and mitigating climate change,” added Pulido.
Meanwhile, the associations of the automotive sector in Spain (Anfac, Faconauto and Ganvam) have asked the government for specific measures that will enable the automotive industry to realize the transition to electric mobility.
This positioning of the three organizations comes after the negotiators of the
European Parliament and Council last night reached an agreement in principle that, from 2035, new passenger cars and commercial vehicles put on the market in the European Union will be ‘zero emissions’, meaning a ban on the marketing of vehicles with combustion engines, including petrol , diesel and hybrids.
the associations of
manufacturers and dealers They argue that tightening up the environmental requirements for the sector should be accompanied by measures of the same level that enable the transition to emission-free mobility.
They believe that “the Executive is not accelerating at the same pace as the industry demands. There is an urgent need to boost sales of electrified vehicles, because if electric cars are not sold in Spain, some may reconsider why invest in electrifying their factories«.
Therefore, they requested the implementation of measures similar to those applied by other countries, such as Portugal, among which it is worthwhile to deduct VAT from buyers of
plug-in hybrids and pure electricin addition to direct support for the purchase without having to process it later in the IRPF for the purchase of an electrified tourism like Germany does.
Source: La Verdad
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