It is bad that the government’s budget bill does not propose to freeze the registration tax on electric cars.
Thus, there is a prospect of price increases for electric cars from next year, and it will hurt sales and the government’s own climate ambitions.
This is the opinion of Gitte Seeberg, CEO of Autobranchen Danmark.
– The prospect that they may become even more expensive is just not very appropriate if you want to sell electric cars, she says.
She points out that the registration tax on electric cars is set to rise from 20 percent to 65 percent next year.
In addition, the basic deduction, which ensures that no registration tax has to be paid for electric cars that cost less than DKK 400,000, will disappear.
Thus, the registration tax for this type of electric car will go from zero percent to 65 percent from next year.
– There will be a sharp slowdown (in sales, ed.). You really have to go in for the case if you want to connect with an electric car right now, says Gitte Seeberg.
She points out that car dealers will also be hesitant to bring too many electric cars home when prices are about to rise.
– For dealers, it is quite risky that an ordinary car might increase by 100,000 or 200,000 kroner. Then it will no longer be so attractive to consumers, she says.
Minister of Taxation Morten Bødskov (S) has previously said that the government is awaiting recommendations from the commission that the previous government set up last year.
The Commission should soon be on the steps with its recommendations in this area, but the damage is already happening, Gitte Seeberg believes.
– Our dealers will probably be able to sell some cars, but the government and the parliamentary parties just have an ambition that it should be electric cars, because we have to do something about the climate issue.
– But it’s just not going to happen, because people are not going to run such a big risk to their personal finances as is planned right now. Security must be provided if sales are to continue.
– It has actually been a real sunbeam story this year, because never have so many electric cars been sold as this year, and especially this summer, sales have gone really well. But there is just no prospect that it can continue, unfortunately, says Gitte Seeberg.
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Source: The Nordic Page