Let me remind you that ruble transport tax rates for passenger cars in Moscow are differentiated by engine power. There are eight of them in total – starting up to 100 horsepower (hp) and then in 25 hp increments, ending with a range of over 250 hp. In particular, the owner of a small car like Lada Granta with a power of up to 100 horsepower will pay instead of the current 12-13 rubles in 2025, 14 in 2026 and 15 in 2027 per horsepower. The tax itself will cost him 1,131 rubles next year instead of the previous 1,044, and by 2032 it will increase to 2,175 rubles. For cars of another widespread segment in Moscow, such as the Lada Niva Sport, the tax rate in 2025 will increase by three rubles per horsepower – from 25 to 28, and the tax will rise from 3,000 per year to 3,360 rubles. Owner of a Hyundai Solaris with a 123 hp engine. will pay an increased tax of 3,444 rubles, and by 2032 – already 4,305 rubles. A more significant increase awaits the owner of a Mitsubishi Outlander with a 167 hp engine – he will have to pay 8,350 rubles in 2025 instead of 7,515.
It was decided to make the tax increase smooth – no more than 10 percent per year
Car owners will receive notifications to pay the tax for 2025 in 2026 and will have to pay it before December 1. All existing benefits, as emphasized by the Moscow Department of Economic Policy, will remain. They concern, in particular, large families, veterans and disabled people of the first and second groups. Parliamentarians also extended the benefits for electric cars – their owners are exempt from paying them for another five years.
The transport tax goes towards the repair and construction of roads in the region. It seems that everyone understands that it is necessary to put the highways in order, but any changes are perceived painfully even by residents who carefully pay for it. In particular, in 2023, according to the Federal Tax Service, the Moscow budget received over 26.3 billion rubles under this item. But there are also many who prefer not to pay the tax, in particular, only until June 1 of the same 2023 (there are no more recent figures in open data), the debt on it from individuals was listed as more than 15.5 billion.
Experts say that the transport tax system itself is outdated. “Singapore, for example, has already switched to a more fine-grained setting about 20 years ago, with the help of which car owners are billed based on the number of kilometers the car has driven in a year, on what roads, what kind of car – a car or a truck, and even at what time days – in the morning, during rush hour it is more expensive, and at night it is cheaper,” said Mikhail Blinkin, an ordinary professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. “It is still difficult to carry out such accounting throughout Russia; it will take time, but in Moscow, with its development of digital technologies, this can be done. quickly and inexpensively.” This approach will force car owners themselves to be more careful when choosing where to drive – along the expensive Boulevard Ring or along the Moscow High-Speed Diameter, where there are practically no traffic jams. The payment itself, in their eyes, will look more fair than now, when a pensioner who goes to the dacha in the spring, and by winter simply returns to the city by car, pays tax on his old Zhiguli, but the owner of an electric car for 25 million rubles does not pay .
By the way, Moscow IT companies are showing great interest in such a tax payment system. So maybe the expert is right, it’s time to switch to a new scheme?
Source: rg.ru
