In Spain, a Committee of Experts has suggested to the government to increase the tax on diesel and to levy taxes on the use of roads. In the name of reducing emissions and saving energy. The conveyors are against.

 

The committee was created by the government, at the request of Congress, to advise the Executive on the definition of the country's future strategy in terms of energy and climate. The proposals will have already been delivered to Mariano Rajoy and will include a 29% increase in the tax on gas oil and the creation of a vignette for the use of the existing fast-track network.

 

The idea is to accelerate the decarbonisation of freight transport, favoring the adoption of cleaner energies and the modal shift of cargoes to more environmentally friendly ones.

 

Unsurprisingly, Fenadismer strongly rejects the measures proposed by the report, which considers "ignoring the reality of the road transport sector, both in terms of contribution to the environment, where the current technology of trucks reduces by more than 90% the gases pollutants emitted into the atmosphere, such as in tax matters, where the sector contributes almost 50% of the total indirect taxes levied by Spanish finance, specifically more than 12 billion euros per year. "

 

It adds that the reality of road transport "also contrasts with the tax benefits enjoyed by air, sea and rail transport which have a total tax exemption on the fuels they consume."

 

Fenadismer also warns of the risk of "a fall in the growth trend of Spanish exports, which has been maintained over the last three years", and which is largely leveraged by road transport.

 

Source, Transportes & Negócios.