Signals from the car industry are reason for Dijkstra and Lodders (both VVD) to ask the State Secretary for Finance about why sales of passenger cars are lagging by about 10% compared to last year.
State Secretary Menno Snel admits that reports are being received from the car industry within the cabinet about a drop in the sales numbers of new cars by approximately 10% in the first half of 2019, compared to the first half of 2018. However, it is difficult to pinpoint specific causes for a decrease or increase in new salessaid the State Secretary and a letter to the House of Representatives.
Not an exceptional development.
According to the cabinet, such a development should not be viewed from one half year. For example, sales in the car industry had increased by more than 2017% in both the first half of 2018 and 10. Total new car sales in the Netherlands have fluctuated for years between 380.000 and 450.000 cars per year. An increase or decrease of, for example, 10% is therefore not an exceptional development, given the past few years.
The BPM revenue for the first half of 2019 is more or less equal to the BPM revenue for the first half of 2018, although the number of newly sold cars decreased during the first half of 2019.
BPM yield remains the same despite a decrease,
Such fluctuations in the number of newly sold cars are not uncommon. The fact that the BPM yield remains the same despite a decrease in the number of new sales is due to the fact that the average CO2 emissions of newly sold cars have increased. This is because new cars are on average heavier and more expensive in 2019 (list price excluding BPM) than in previous years.
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