“Federal agency: get rid of diesel fuel tax privilege”
Berliner Morgenpost / dpa
Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) says the country ought to consider abandoning its diesel fuel tax privilege, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Berliner Morgenpost. UBA head Maria Krautzberger told newspaper Rheinische Post the tax privilege should be “put on trial” as it was an “environmentally harmful subsidy” that cost the state about 7.8 billion euros annually, the article says. The lower taxation of diesel fuel was far more costly than what the state provided for supporting electric mobility, Krautzberger argued.
Read the article in German here.
See the CLEW article on Germany’s diesel summit for more information.
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