Brussels is particularly keen to discover in wide consultation whether there would be support for replacing registration taxes with charges based on CO2 emissions, which would help the European Union (EU) meet its Kyoto Protocol global warming commitments.
Comments on the following four options have been requested by September 10:
Brussels said it wanted reform, because of the complex legal problems created by contrasting registration tax rules, which its research has identified as 'the biggest problem' in the (pre-expansion) 15 member states regarding transferring cars across borders. The commission would prefer these are 'replaced by annual road taxes and fuel taxes related to the use of a car rather than its acquisition'.
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