The general Court has doubts as to the usefulness of the tax advantages of the electric car

The audit is not necessarily in favour of a continuation of the current tax-the promotion of electric vehicles, so as to let the independent investigators of the Dutch Government on Wednesday will know. It is, according to the netherlands Court of audit is a valuable method to reduce the CO2 emissions.

it turns out that That the tax loss per saved ton of CO2, which is the General Court of auditors has been calculated in a new report.

That amount of money is set in 2020, in the case of the Nissan Leaf at 1.432 euro and of the Volkswagen e-Golf, and last month, the most registered electric vehicle in the Netherlands, on-1.291 euro.

That amounts from 2018 due to the severity of the tax benefits, however, have declined. When the car was tax loss per saved ton of CO2 in 2018, even at 2.199 euros. The leader that year, it was the expensive Tesla, the Model X, which is the tax loss amounted to 3.168 of the euro.

Tax breaks for company cars in the last minute

in Spite of the downward trend in place and the netherlands Court of audit to question the use of fiscal instruments. "The Court of audit recommends that the secretary of state for Finance, in order to determine whether the continuation of fiscal incentives for electric cars what is desirable, is so to report to the investigators on Wednesday.

you can Also use the tax benefits for light trucks, which are almost exclusively run on diesel, would be in the General Court at the last minute should be. Last year, the treasury was 1.7 billion euros, is wrong. The production of these vehicles is to blame.

"in The current special tax rules for vans are to luchtkwaliteits and klimaatdoelen of the car taxes", said the Dutch Court of audit. The plan would need to be adjusted, that is, models with lower emissions, more attractive.