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EU TAXES * Switzerland - New study on road charging
EU Member States will end up paying much more than they will receive
(Video from YouTube, by Roadtrain72 -15 Dec 2007: Trucks on the Switzerland)
Basel,Switzerland -HGV UK -September 13, 2010: -- Only two Member States will benefit from extra wealth and national income from the internalisation of external costs whereas most EU Member States will end up paying much more than they will receive a new study has concluded... Road charges, when including excessive external costs, can reach up to €436 billion per year, yet without generating any effective action aimed at removing the externalities by earmarking the charges to effectively reduce road transport’s environmental impact, the study concludes... ProgTrans has presented the results of a study on the economic impact of the internalisation of external costs on individual EU Member States and the European road haulage industry, which reveals that:
* in 2009, the road haulage industry already paid 15 billion euro in road user charges;
* costs generated by the internalisation of the external costs would be 5 to 414 billion euro per year, depending on the year and charging scenario;
* adding the internalisation of external costs to current road user charges would result in a total burden on the EU economy of 20 to 436 billion euro per year.
When balancing each Member State’s revenues collected from national and foreign hauliers against related costs for their national trade, the ProgTrans study further reveals that:
* only two countries – France and Germany – would profit from the internalisation of external costs regardless of the study year and scenario;
* 16 countries would face serious losses of national income;
* the remaining 9 countries would experience various outcomes, yet with overall quite large losses of national income in most years and scenarios.
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