“Tax benefits when refuelling with diesel: 254 billion euros since 1990”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The German car industry and transport sector receive hundreds of billions of euros in state support through different systems, writes Manfred Schäfers in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Diesel is taxed at a lower rate than petrol, meaning the government missed out on 254 billion euros in taxes from 1990 until 2015, according to a government reply to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green Party. Other examples include almost 1 billion euros in support to German carmakers for research and development from 2007 to 2017, or the sale of 15,000 cars by Volkswagen to the government since 2007, writes Schäfers.
Read the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers for background.
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