New incentives for car purchases are on the way. The Ministry of Business and Made in Italy is working on a ministerial decree which should come into force in February, allocating 930 million euros for subsidies aimed above all at changing the “carbon” footprint of the Italian car fleet. Meanwhile today Anfia released the registration data, 2023 ended with 1,566,448 car registrations, 18.96% more than 2022. In the month of December, 111,136 cars were sold with a growth of 5. 9% on the same month of the previous year.
The three objectives of the new incentives
According to the draft text, the new incentive structure has three objectives. First of all, encourage the replacement of the Italian fleet, which is among the oldest in Europe with 11 million very polluting cars (Euro 3 or lower). The Prime Ministerial Decree then aims to support the purchases of less well-off families to a greater extent, reserving an extra bonus of 25% for people with an ISEE of less than 30 million euros. Finally, the provision has the ambition of stimulating the purchase of cars manufactured in Italy, preparing criteria that are not discriminatory towards other European countries but at least do not end up penalizing national production.
The amount of incentives for electric and hybrid cars
The new incentives are differentiated according to three criteria and will be available to individuals and companies (excluding dealers): the pollution categories, the category of the scrapped vehicle, the buyer’s income.
Thus, for electric cars with a maximum price of 35 thousand euros (excluding VAT), the subsidies will go from a minimum of 6,000 euros in the absence of scrapping to a maximum of 13,750 euros in the case of scrapping a vehicle up to Euro 2 and ISEE less than 30 thousand euros.
Applying the same criteria, the incentives for hybrid cars with a maximum price of 45 thousand euros can vary from a minimum of 5,000 euros up to a maximum of 10 thousand.
Finally, for simple hybrids and other fuel systems with a price of up to 35,000 euros, the incentives will only be available in the event of scrapping and without distinctions of income and will range from 1,500 up to 3,000 euros.
The experimentation of «social leasing»
The Prime Ministerial Decree will also allocate 50 million euros for the experimentation of so-called social leasing. This is a contribution to natural persons who stipulate a long-term rental contract of one of the vehicles eligible for the ecobonus, with a rental period of no less than three years. The license fee should thus become capped, allowing less wealthy families to access less polluting vehicles. The management of the program will be entrusted to a non-economic public body, while the criteria and methods of use will be defined by Mimit with a decree to be issued within 120 days of the entry into force of the Prime Ministerial Decree.
Subsidies for taxis and commercial vehicles
Finally, the draft hypothesizes the doubling of the contribution for the taxis that win the extraordinary competition for the issue, for a fee, of new licenses and for the subjects authorized to operate the rental service with driver. The doubling of the bonus will also affect old holders of taxi licenses or persons authorized to operate the NCC service who decide to replace their service vehicle (implementation of the provisions of the Asset Decree). Detailed incentives up to a maximum of 18 thousand euros are then provided for the purchase of new commercial vehicles by small goods transport companies on their own behalf or on behalf of third parties.
2024-01-02 17:04:54
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