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Greenhouse gas tax Sin Germany joined the EU in cars Tying costs to emissions.
Small fuel-efficient cars will owe less in taxes in the future.
It is a plea that a number of EU countries answered ago a dozen countries that have introduced CO2 emissions as a factor in their tax system on the engine this week, the Germany - the most car-obsessed nation of 27 members of the bloc - - said he was preparing to follow suit.
After weeks of sometimes intense wrangling, leading members of Germany's coalition government reached an agreement Monday night on the composition of the new vehicle tax According to the agreement, expected to come into force on 1 July 1 once he made his way by Parliament, all new cars will be taxed based on engine size and CO2 emissions per kilometer.
Yet even if the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel - which pairs her conservatives with the Social Democrats left center - welcomes the agreement as a step forward in the fight against global warming, environmentalists have not lost time in blasting the transaction.
The plan, Green Party environmental expert Bärbel Höhn told the Saarbrücker Zeitung is a classic case of deceptive packaging is marked climate protection But in fact, it doesn t do much to change the status quo, it was taken over by floor leader Green Party Renate Künast, who criticized the agreement because it makes little large consumers of gas disadvantage.
Taxes on small cars, however, would fall an Opel Agila, for example, emits 120 grams of CO2 per kilometer and is equipped with One 1 2-liter diesel engine, would cost the owner 50 164 123 per year, some 75 less taxes than in the current system Every gram of CO2 emitted per kilometer on punishment without limit of 120 grams, would cost an additional drivers 2 engine size and type determines the rest.
But even if the formula actually cheaper to buy small fuel-efficient cars, resulting in a slight up box for those who opt for the powerful polluters For example, car taxes for a 12-cylinder Audi Q7 - a car is often lampooned in Germany to be particularly harmful to the environment - wouldn t change at all for the SUV Mercedes GLK-wheel drive, the taxes would increase by a modest 4 of 7 percent.
Yet it is an improvement over the first bill considered by the coalition Some members of Merkel's Christian Democrats had taken the position of the automotive industry and called for a version that would actually reduces taxes large gas guzzling vehicles with car manufacturers Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche in mind, a large percentage of cars produced by the German automobile industry has always focused on speed and luxury on the economy and the critical energy efficiency vehement led the CDU to back his position We managed to avoid a nonsense charge, said Minister Sigmar Gabriel, a member of the social Democrats.
Despite the weaknesses of the new agreement, it brings Germany into line with European Union is a growing consensus on the virtues of the basic tax rules of the automobile a dozen EU countries have now introduced emissions of CO2 emissions their tax forms on vehicles, including France, Italy, Spain and the UK.
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