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"Mr President, I hope the Commissioner appreciates how happy the Irish car buyer would be to see VRT eliminated. This tax has made cars unnecessarily expensive in Ireland. I am totally against EU interference in regulating national taxes. However, as Ireland levies VRT, it is a draconian tax that has no rationale except to bleed Irish car owners of money – a lot of money from citizens who, for the most part, do not have a public transport system that will allow them to manage without a car.
To collect car taxes for a reason like environmental protection makes sense. People can understand that and to some extent they can control the rate they pay by their choice of car. The Irish Government should make this change with or without Europe.
However, we must make this shift carefully and think of all the ramifications. The move to use road tax to effectively promote energy-efficient cars by charging significantly more tax for cars with bigger engines that use more fuel will mean that drivers will have to pay more for bigger and more powerful cars. However, these tax penalties will have a negative impact on families. Any family with more than three children, or families with grandparents or other household members, are dependent on bigger cars like people carriers and therefore will be forced to pay the consequences.
I am advocating a dual system in which the road tax increases with engine size and, within each engine size category, by energy efficiency. The family can then reduce the tax they have to pay by choosing a more energy-efficient car which satisfies the family’s transport needs. We must ensure that measures are both environment- and family-friendly."@en1
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