The government is studying excise taxes on electric cars to replace the revenue from those on fuel. Which Meloni promised to cut

The Meloni government is studying how to recover the excise tax revenue that the State will lose due to the spread of electric cars. Despite the fact that during the election campaign the prime minister had promised the “sterilization of state revenue from taxes on energy and fuel and automatic reduction of VAT and excise duties”, as is known once she reached […]

The government Melons study how to recover the revenue from excise duties that the State will lose due to the spread of electric cars. Although the prime minister had promised the “sterilization of revenue of the State from taxes on energy and fuel e automatic reduction of VAT and excise duties”, as is known, once she arrived at Palazzo Chigi she backtracked and decided not to even renew the cut introduced by the Draghi government.

The Minister of Economy on Wednesday Giancarlo Giorgettilinked to the Automotive Dealer Day at the Verona Fair, said that a “government reflection on the need to keep in mind theevolution of tax bases on the basis of the transformation of the economic system”: “Think about the effect that theelectrification on shifting of fuel excise duties at new forms of nutrition. And it won’t just be a reduction in revenue, but a significant one translation. This is an area on which the MEF has already started working also in consideration of the updating of European legislation on the taxation of energy products”. In 2023, the revenue from excise duties on fuel was over 25.2, a sharp increase from 18 in 2022 when concessions were still in force.

The deputy of the Alleanza Verdi Sinistra Angelo Bonelli and the organizational manager of Green Europe, Francesco Alemannithey commented, speaking of “yet another attack on environmental policies and the ecological transition“. “What is a government that promised to remove excise duties on fuel doing today?”, they continue. “It puts new taxes on electric cars, hindering the path to sustainable, low-emission mobility. United with delay of incentiveswhich have eliminated the sales of electric cars, with this move there seems to be an intention to kill electric mobility, on the very day Stellantis announces the agreement with Leapmotor to also market low-cost electric cars from China. They have no vision, their only objective is to wage war on the ecological transition.”