2024-09-12 02:36:26
The European Community of Alsace (CEA) will vote on a tax on heavy goods vehicles passing through its main road, to reduce the chance of trucks wanting to avoid the normal tax in Germany, President Frédéric Bierry announced on Thursday.
The tourism project, under study for years, “will be submitted to the local political vote”, said the elected LR during lunch. “If the decision is made, that means that at the end of 2026, the beginning of 2027, it can be implemented,” he added, then referring to the entry into force on January 1, 2027.
The President did not give the estimated amount for this tax, but according to the impact study carried out by the company Deloitte for the CEA (resulting from the merger in 2021 of the departmental councils of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin) , it can be 15 cents per kilometer.
64 million euros
Used primarily on the A35 highway, which crosses Alsace from north to south, this tax will bring in 64 million euros per year, half of which will come from transportation, according to this study.
The exact terms of the tax, its value, and the possible compensation for local transfers, will then be discussed for a year with economic actors, Frédéric Bierry has promised. “Our issue is public health, public safety, flow,” he explained.
Many lorries take the A35 motorway, which crosses Alsace from north to south, to avoid the “LKW-Maut”, a heavy goods vehicle tax on the other side of the border, in Germany since 2005, and which amounts to increased significantly last December.
According to CEA information, this decision leads to an 18% increase in the number of heavy goods vehicles on the A35 in 2024. The vote on the application of the tax is expected to take place on October 21.
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