Budget 2022 fuel tax to rise

A classic catastrophe post because you read too much in the media.

It's not a "few cents" per litre. It is 2c a litre + vat on diesel and 1.6c + vat on petrol. Same as last year and year before and well flagged as an annual increase.

I love the way the media used a large "full tank" to try and make it seem a bigger increase than it is. (How many people put €90 of fuel into their vehicle)

On a standard €50 fuel purchase it will add about 75c

It will have many people think electric as the same increase will happen next year.

It will be going up every budget until 2030, they have set this. When it hits €4 a litre I will consider going electric to save money.

CO2 is such a pressing issue, and so important it be taxed heavily, that An Post are currently sending a majority of packages that are arriving from outside the EU, back to their points of origins in order to try and get them to submit electronic customs declarations in addition to the physical ones already on them. Some have been returned to Asia more than once, already, and will have circumnavigated the planet 3 or four times instead of 0.5 times.

Reducing CO2 footprints is important for everyone, except of course the government and it's agencies.

The problem with that plan is that by the time it reaches that figure, will you be able to afford the €40'000 ( or what ever it will cost to buy an EV) by then???😁

Going to mean major business model changes all right !!!!🤣

Typical knee jerk reactions to go full electric to save money. Even a full tank once a week is a total extra of 100eu a year. Set that against a 40 to 60k new ev car cost without interest costs and you have to question people's basic maths.

That said if you want a new car just get one, no issues. But don't claim you are going to save money.

Where did you come up with a standard fuel purchase equalling €50? I can't remember the last time a tank refill came to such a small amount in monetary terms. I measure by the litre when refilling and it's almost always between 45 and 49 litres, not €. Obviously the cost of the refill fluctuates all the time but it's always a large amount over €50. Car is a basic 1.5 litre Ford Focus...... Pretty standard affair.

im interested in this as a concept. Tax take on fuel will have to be replaced. We have two electric cars and a diesel crewcab van. The second electric car definitely has no way of recording the leccy going into it as it is a 2012 citroen czero. Incidentally it was bought because the cost of commuting 50km a day in the diesel van (monetary and environmental) was excessive in my opinion and due to work and school timetables cycling or public transport was not remotely feasible. Recent times have changed the need but still holding on to the second leccy car as a runabout when the other one is in work with my wife. Financially probably better off without the expense of the second car, but i feel a lot better about nipping to the shops etc in the tiny leccy car than in the diesel van, which is reserved for longer trips almost exclusively at this stage.

But to the point, no idea how the gubbermint will calculate how much leccy goes into this thing. Perhaps it will be an outlier and get left alone, making it appreciate in value as years pass!

One of the other options being checked out is that you have a special circuit on your fuse board, like for night storage heaters, but for cars.

You are not allowed to charge your car unless on this circuit and the meter takes care of the tax. At present though there are too many ways around this, so i dont think thats going to be a runner at all.

Perhaps in your case they will just leave it alone until the car dies. Or maybe record the mileage at the yearly NCT, or maybe even just have a fixed rate for cars that cant be recorded.

Believe what you like. Maybe they will end up never taxing EVs. All I can tell you is that our company are working on the software for recording the research, and I have a peek every now and then at all sorts of projects that interest me even though im not working on them myself.