Tax on EV batteries to be introduced

By THE NATION

 

Patchara Anuntasilpa

 

 

The Excise Department is preparing to propose the establishment of a fund to support and develop electric vehicles (EV), and says that a tax on the EV battery will be collected to cover the costs of managing and monitoring its recycling and treatment, its director general Patchara Anuntasilpa, announced this week.

 

“EV owners will pay up to Bt1,000 for each of their batteries depending on its size,” he explained after a meeting on the subject. “When EV owners return their expired batteries, their money will be paid back to them.”

 

The director general explained that the fund does not cover the treatment of expired batteries, but will be used monitor the correctness of the treatment operated by each automobile company.

 

Presently, there are no battery treatment factories in Thailand at present and automobile companies sent their expired batteries to be treated in foreign countries.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30379538?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=internal_referral

 

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So they want to tax people who would be making the environment a better place.  Some people are just going to by a gas polluting car instead.  Why not tax those damn dump trucks that pollute the air with black smoke and carbons.  These people are not qualified and should be fired.  This government is spending time running after protesters who want things changed then looking in a mirror at themselves.

and I bet that money will go to a good cause.. 

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

“When EV owners return their expired batteries, their money will be paid back to them.”

In 10 baht yearly installments over the next 100 years.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

“EV owners will pay up to Bt1,000 for each of their batteries depending on its size,” he explained after a meeting on the subject. “When EV owners return their expired batteries, their money will be paid back to them.”

So it's a deposit, not a tax. Am I missing something?

They just can't help it. You can just see this money evaporating and then when time to pay out "Sorry, misunderstanding, no money here for you but you now owe us thousands to dispose of batteries, thank you....". Surely people can see through this nonsense? Paying money today that we promises to pay back later when it is actually needed!!!!! 

59 minutes ago, Scot123 said:

They just can't help it. You can just see this money evaporating and then when time to pay out "Sorry, misunderstanding, no money here for you but you now owe us thousands to dispose of batteries, thank you....". Surely people can see through this nonsense? Paying money today that we promises to pay back later when it is actually needed!!!!! 

It's like a bottle deposit, pay now bring it back for a refund. Don't return it, we keep the money to help with an enviromentaly sound recycling. Seems logical to me, almost unbelievably so actually.

12 minutes ago, ramrod711 said:

It's like a bottle deposit, pay now bring it back for a refund. Don't return it, we keep the money to help with an enviromentaly sound recycling. Seems logical to me, almost unbelievably so actually.

Lol! What an analogue 10p return on an empty botte (which was not an extra tax added) compared to £1000's of tax added to the price of an electric car. An electric car doesn't just have one battery it has a pack of around 100 cells. 

"...fund to support and develop electric vehicles (EV), and says that a tax on the EV battery will be collected..."

With this sort of reasoning, one could say the taxes on beer and tobacco are there to promote smoking and drinking.

Taxes increase price, which decreases those willing to pay higher price pool.

Guess they skipped Econ 101

Don't some EVs use multiple smaller batteries?  According to the almighty Google, a Tesla has 16 modules wired in series, if those are all classed as seperate batteries, that'll up the price a bit!

It was only a matter of time

On 12/17/2019 at 8:09 AM, webfact said:

“EV owners will pay up to Bt1,000 for each of their batteries depending on its size,” he explained after a meeting on the subject. “When EV owners return their expired batteries, their money will be paid back to them.”

That's a good idea...????
–and it might work just as well as in some the Scandinavian countries, where it has been used for bottles, alu-cans, and even cars in my home country, where you get a "price" when disposed to an authorized car demolition company.