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Guzzlers pay more

June 21, 2007

The Dutch government says it wants to heavily tax the most fuel-inefficient cars.

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Petrol cars emission more than 240 g/km of CO2 would pay an extra €80-90 in registration taxes for every gram over the 240 mark; the diesel threshold would be 200 g/km. The proposals also envisage emissions-based differentiation in new car taxes.

This news story is taken from the June 2007 edition of T&E Bulletin.

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