Road pricing in 2030From 2030, motorists will have to pay for every kilometer, wherever or at whatever time they drive it. Mileage traveled abroad will also count. That is the plan that this government has in mind for road pricing.
Tomorrow the Council of Ministers will discuss this in broad terms, several sources confirm to this site. This means that users of both electric and fossil cars will both contribute to road use. Now owners of electric cars are relatively cheap, because they do not pay for the excise duty levied on petrol and diesel.
The implementation still has the necessary snags. For example, the question is how the kilometers driven are recorded and who will do it.
Mileage
According to sources, it is most obvious to use the mileage of cars for this purpose. You could use the odometer reading during the General Periodic Inspection (APK) for this. The only problem is that new cars only need an MOT after four years and every other year after that. To prevent motorists from suddenly having to pay a large sum of money, you should have the mileage recorded earlier.
Ways to prove that mileage are also being considered, for example through a box in the car or with a smartphone. The difficult part of this is that the privacy of motorists is more likely to be at risk than if only the mileage was taken into account.
No rush hour rate
According to sources, there is no distinction between rush hours and less busy times or highways and other roads. Previous plans with road pricing or kilometer charges during rush hour have not come to fruition. Around 2000, the then minister Tineke Netelenbos, who was sketchily called ‘Tineke Tolpoort’ before that, already tried to introduce a form of road pricing.
The introduction of a kilometer charge, whereby the rate per kilometer driven would depend on the time (rush hour/night) and the location at which the vehicle was driven, also failed. Kilometer tax was previously planned for 2012, but failed under the first Rutte cabinet. Traffic experts were very pleased with the fact that the use of busy roads at busy times would be discouraged, but that system also failed.
as much
The new tax must yield as much as the current road tax, insiders confirm about the road pricing plans that Minister Mark Harbers (Infrastructure) and State Secretary Marnix van Rij (Finance) will discuss with their colleagues tomorrow. Only for people who drive a lot does it mean that they have to pay more than now. People who make few kilometers are relatively cheap. By keeping to the odometer, kilometers made abroad are also counted. This makes a car holiday to, for example, France, Spain or Italy relatively expensive. Drivers will also lose more for winter sports to countries such as Austria and Switzerland. People who make fewer kilometers throughout the year, but who make long holiday trips, can ultimately also be cheaper than under the current road tax.
The coalition agreement also stated that this cabinet wants to introduce a system of Payments according to Use for all car mobility by 2030. The coalition of VVD, D66, CDA and ChristenUnie has agreed not to introduce this system until 2030, but to prepare for it already. Legislation for this must be enacted during this cabinet term. The charge is not bound by time and place and will replace the toll routes that still exist at that time, such as the Westerscheldetunnel and the Kiltunnel.
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