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Quite practical: the advantages of electric cars
Dominik Leiter, lawyer and partner at Weisenheimer Legal in Vienna, gives useful legal tips for practice in the automotive industry. This time he explains the advantages of electric cars from a legal perspective.
Quite practical: the advantages of electric cars
The advantages of electric cars are obvious. At least from a legal perspective. While discussions about environmental friendliness are often emotional, electric cars are an integral part of most measures to combat climate change. Accordingly, various incentives have been created to encourage as many people as possible to switch from a vehicle with a combustion engine to one with an electric motor. Today's article aims to present some of the advantages that an electric car brings with it.
First of all, the tax advantages. As a buyer of an electric vehicle, you save the (recently increased) NoVA and the engine-related insurance tax. There are also discounts on sales tax: the ban on input tax deductions for cars used for business purposes does not apply to electric cars. And another note specifically for privately used company cars: While the vehicle benefit in kind usually increases the assessment basis for wage tax, social security contributions and additional wage costs (and thus leads to higher tax payments), privately used electric cars are exempt from this.
The next benefits also involve financial incentives. As part of the Ministry of the Environment's e-mobility offensive, the private purchase of an electric car is subsidized with a total of 5,000 euros (models with a gross list price of more than 60,000 euros are, however, excluded from this). The installation of private charging infrastructure is additionally supported with 600 euros per wallbox or intelligent charging cable. Companies are also supported, for example when purchasing electric vehicles with 4,000 euros and when setting up publicly accessible fast charging stations with up to 30,000 euros per charging station.
Some cities such as Graz, Klagenfurt and Eisenstadt have decided not to charge parking fees for electric cars. However, Vienna did not follow suit.
Last but not least, another advantage when driving: speed restrictions due to the Air Immission Control Act (IG-L) do not apply to cars with green license plates. You can therefore continue to drive 130 km/h instead of 100 or 80 km/h on the affected sections of the route.