Found this on - ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER... as a non-EU resident, I found some of the numbers insanely absurd!



E.U. Car Taxes: French Pay 7 times More Toll Taxes Than Italians And Denmark Charges 155% Tax On Cars!

Talking about car ownership costs in Australia in our previous post made me remember an article about car taxation in the EU that I had once recommended writing about in my 9 to 5 job but never did due to office stupidity and bureaucracy (…). Since Carscoop’s a blog and in “blog-world”, less is more, I won’t go into an anal sort of detailed analysis. Instead, I’ll just pinpoint some interesting facts and let the info-sheets after the jump speak for themselves.

*Note these are the latest facts we found on ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers Association) and Eurostat.



Taxes on ownership: While in most EU countries taxes on car ownership are based on engine capacity and horsepower, Denmark (probably the weirdest EU member when it comes to car duties) taxes fuel consumption and… weight! However, let’s say that there’s logic behind this combination, what about Hungary and Latvia that base ownership taxes solely on car weight? Estonia, France, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic weirdly enough don’t charge any passenger vehicle ownership taxes.



Taxes on acquisition (2.0-litre vehicle): By far, Denmark is the EU champion here; those petrol-sucking officials will add a stunning 155% on the factory price of a 2.0-litre engine car! Second up is new EU member Malta that charges a heart breaking 93% while Portugal takes the third place with 77% VAT & registration taxes. The best place to buy (as a resident) a 2.0-litre car in the E.U. is Luxembourg as its government adds a mere 15% to the factory price.



Fiscal Income from Motor Vehicles: Heap of stuff here. France: 60.6 million people and 36 million cars, busses, trucks and vans - € 7.7 billion in toll taxes. Italy: 55.8 million people and 39 million vehicles- €1.1 billion… At least in insurance taxes both countries were on the same level (FR: €4.1 billion, ΙΤ: € 4.3 billion). Denmark on the other hand, received €3.3 billion for insurance taxes. But wait, isn’t Denmark significantly smaller than France or Italy? Yes it is: population 5.5 million, vehicles in use: 2 million!




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damn denmark is nutts.. poor danish folks..i would register my car in sweden

The figures for Finland are completely wrong, except for cars. I suppose they are the figures for France.

And face whatever repercussions the Danish officials have in store for people who try to do just that? Or would you only use the car outside of Denmark?
I remember reading an article about the Danes (I think it was them) registering all sorts of vehicles (wagons, SUVs etc.) as vans, thus avoiding the car tax. I believe they said the majority of Porsche Cayennes sold in Denmark are registered as vans...

Here in Finland, people have come up with all sorts of interesting contraptions to avoid the car tax. Here's one:

Speaking of Denmark... I just learned today that one of my aunt's friend, who is a Danish diplomat has his mandate ending this summer.

He was planning to bring his 2003 X5 3.0i back with him, only the total import cost was a whopping $80,000 CND (~55,000 euros)!

So he's obviously selling it.

Now all you lucky no tax americans understand what we have to deal with, beside high/er fuel prices.

Netherlands sadly is second worst
Denmark is out of this world....

Now do we have a list with fuel prices too???