The Danish People's Party proposes in an election year to make it cheaper to fill up on petrol and diesel. The party wants to lower the tax by 2.68 kroner for a litre of petrol and 1.80 kroner for a litre of diesel. This is reported by Jyllands-Posten on Wednesday.
- I cannot understand the discrimination that is taking place these years between those who drive electric cars and those who drive fossil cars. It is antisocial and moralizing, chairman Morten Messerschmidt tells the newspaper.
The subject may be on the agenda during the general election, which must be held before the end of October.
He believes that such drivers should be "treated properly" and that the VAT on the two types of fuel should be reduced from 25 to 15 percent. According to DF, this corresponds to the minimum rules set by the EU.
The government has previously implemented a system where drivers can check prices on a website before they get in their car and drive out to refuel. It has not proposed making petrol or diesel cheaper.
The state loses money on low electric car taxes
As the tax system stands today, owners of electric cars get off noticeably cheaper than those who have a petrol or diesel car. For a number of years, they have either been completely exempt from or paid a greatly reduced registration tax, and they pay a smaller amount in owner tax.
In addition, there are taxes on petrol and diesel, which are significantly higher than the tax on electricity. In 2024, the Ministry of Finance concluded in a report that an electric car owner will pay 0.24 kroner in total tax per kilometer driven, even though the real cost to the treasury is 0.75 kroner. An owner of a petrol car pays 1.30 kroner in tax for each kilometer driven, while the tax for a diesel car is 1.24 kroner. On the other hand, driving an electric car is better for the environment.
Morten Messerschmidt owns both a larger BMW, which runs on petrol, and a small Smart car, which runs on electricity.
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