After the ecological bonus, the electric tax slap?

After offering ecological bonuses, the State is considering taxing electric vehicles… absurdity per kilometer.

We thought we had it all figured out with electric cars: To encourage the transition to sustainable mobility, the French State implemented costly ecological bonuses at purchase. Yet now, a new mechanism, kilometer-based taxation, has entered the fiscal debate.

So, a bonus is given for the purchase, people are encouraged to drive “clean,” and then they consider taxing these same vehicles without taking the user’s profile into account! The absurdity is glaring: a wealthy urban household that only takes out its electric SUV on weekends for short drives will be less penalized than a modest rural worker who spends two hours each day driving a cheap small electric car to work. Kicking someone in the rear to snatch away what was just given has never seemed so unfair.

Give, give, give,…

Granting an ecological bonus at purchase, then imposing a blind kilometer tax, denies all social and economic realities. Not everyone drives for pleasure or luxury. A system that does not distinguish usage from income, necessity of travel, or vehicle type automatically becomes unfair, thus unjust.

And meanwhile, the plan is still to ban gasoline cars by 2035? It would be almost funny if it weren’t so sad. We push electric vehicles, promise they are free of constraints and good for wallets, then prepare them to become a financial burden. The message sent is confusing, not to say discouraging: “Buy electric to pay less and save the planet, but get ready to pay to cover the deficit.”

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This project illustrates double talk: encouraging electric vehicles while punishing their users. By mixing incentives and blind taxes, we risk discouraging those who most need access. Even if the idea does not come to full fruition – and we are certain it will, in one form or another – the ideal of ecological transition just took a serious blow, and its opponents are licking their chops. Well done, ladies and gentlemen politicians!

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