Adjusting taxes is often an effective way to influence which cars the public buys.
In some cases, however, the taxes are wrong, and must therefore be adjusted.
Here are three classes of cars that will be taxed in Sweden in 2025.
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Tax shock of SEK 30,000
The big tax shock in 2025 affects cars that, in addition to regular petrol, can also run on the environmental fuel E85.
The E85 cars have so far been exempt from the malus system, which provides increased vehicle tax for the first three years, which has been used extensively for large, fuel-hungry pickups such as the Ram 1500 and Ford F150.
The problem is that most owners choose to run on regular gasoline rather than E85, whereupon the environmental impact becomes the same as any gasoline car.
On February 1, 2025, the loophole will be closed, which could lead to a tax hit of SEK 30,000 a year for certain car models.
You can read more about this here.
This is how the tax on mobile homes changes
At the same time as the malus tax is introduced for E85 cars, it is abolished for another category of cars.
It is about the motorhomes, which, despite the fact that they are in many cases used for limited periods of the year, have so far been subject to the same penalty taxes as other large diesel cars.
The government has previously calculated that the increased tax on an average mobile home is around SEK 20,500 for a whole year.
This has led to strong reactions from several quarters, and from 1 February mobile homes are exempt from the malus tax.
You can read more about this here.
Tax break for plug-in hybrids
2025 also looks set to be a year of change for the popular plug-in hybrids, which combine the ability to drive shorter distances on electricity with the agility and range of a traditional combustion engine.
More specifically, new methods of measuring emissions could lead to a severe tax shock for plug-in hybrids, which have so far benefited from low taxes.
The reason for the change is that it was discovered that the average plug-in hybrid does not run as much on pure electric power as it has been expected, which means that the emissions are also significantly higher than expected.
The new way of measuring emissions can lead to SEK 1,000 higher vehicle tax per year for certain plug-in hybrids.
You can read more about this here.
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Source: nyheter24.se
