Italy Scraps Road Tax for Most Cars as Election Nears
The exemption covers 14.5 million vehicles and would last one year, as Meloni’s coalition seeks support ahead of next year’s election.
- On Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced the government is abolishing road tax for 14.5 million cars and motor-bikes, calling it a tax "hated by Italians."
- Facing a neck-and-neck race next year, Meloni's coalition introduced the €2.36 billion exemption despite Italy's public debt peaking at 139% of GDP this year, replacing Greece as Europe's most indebted nation.
- Applicable to all motor-bikes and over 70% of small- and medium-sized cars, the benefit limits each citizen to one vehicle, restricting the measure's per-household reach despite broad vehicle coverage.
- Critics dismissed the measure as a diversion from rising fuel prices caused by the war against Iran, while the government has already spent €2.8 billion on excise duty cuts amid sustained market pressure.
- Rossano Sasso, a senior aide to Roberto Vannacci of the National Future party, criticized the move, stating, "It's like treating pneumonia with a throat lozenge," underscoring the coalition's political vulnerability.
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The Italian government is moving forward with the abolition of annual circulation taxes for two-wheelers and small and medium-sized cars, as decided during the cabinet meeting. These are essentially cars with a power not exceeding 80 KW and which, according to the Italian government, constitute 70% of the total. It is estimated that these are 14.5 million vehicles. Meloni: We abolished one of the taxes that Italians hated the most “Today the gov…
Millions of motorists in Italy are delighted because they will be freed from the country's "most hated tax" next year. On Wednesday, the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni decided on a corresponding regulation for passenger cars with an output of up to 80 kilowatts as well as for motorcycles of all cylinder classes.
The Italian government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has decided, due to high fuel prices, not to levy tax on all... in 2027.
Italy decided to eliminate the car tax for 14.5 million cars and motorcycles, announced on Wednesday Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a measure that would cost the state budget – already under pressure – over 2 billion euros. The decision comes in the context of the government seeking ways to increase its popularity before the elections ...
In Italy, too, there is currently much more to be paid at petrol stations than in the past. Now, for 2027, the Meloni government is suspending the car tax on many cars and motorcycles.
Italy decided to eliminate the car tax for 14.5 million cars and motorcycles, announced, on Wednesday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a measure that would cost the state budget - already under pressure - over 2 billion euros, according to ANSA, quoted by Agerpres.
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