Car taxation

The vehicle taxation includes all taxes that may be incurred for a motor vehicle. These may be one-time, recurring or usage- dependent.

On the basic survey and the level of charges decided depending on the country

• Fiscal reasons
• Economic reasons (eg exemption from tractors or airplanes )
• Environmental reasons (eg, progressive taxation based on engine capacity or emissions )
• Commercial reasons ( eg EU duty on vehicles from non-Member States)

Species

• Registration tax (once when buying a new vehicle, for example, in the Netherlands and Denmark)
• Motor vehicle tax (recurrent taxation, usually annually)
• Mineral oil ( depending on consumption )
• Car insurance tax ( for example in Denmark)
• Components taxation (eg bulbs tax in Germany or battery discharge in Denmark)
• Tolls, vignettes and road tolls ( for example, the distance-based péage in France for the use of motorways, the traveling kilometers independent vignette in Switzerland or the bridge tax in Denmark)