Weight tax for SUVs now on the table for Budget 2026 as strategy papers offer a glimpse at potential measures

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  1. Taxing SUVs more does seem sensible. They are getting out of hand on the roads.

  2. This could get interesting depending on what the definition of a SUV is. Plenty of green vehicles are quite heavy due to the battery and especially hybrids that have an ICE, an electric motor and a battery. That’s would mean that petrol and diesel vehicles would have a lower tax.

  4. SUVs don’t even weigh that much more than regular saloon cars.

  5. I can’t read the article but I presume it’s the typical Independent tabloid headline.

    I presume its a tax based on weight of private cars – nothing directly to do with SUVs.

  6. In Germany there are much more of those small cars. Like those Japanese 2 seaters, little Fiats etc. Small, cheap, efficient. I don’t see those in Ireland except for an odd one.

  7. Will D4 get an exemption as this tax on them would be unfair 

  8. Size and weight of cars grows year on year because of hybrids (especially PHEVs) and increased safety standards (bigger crumple zones, stronger steel, more safety add-ons). We already have one of the most onerous car and road tax systems in Europe. This Government has completely run out of ideas.

    Would be far better to tackle the housing crisis as if it were a genuine emergency (which it is) rather than simply cosplaying as giving a shit by creating a underclass of apartment dwellers with shoebox apartments you couldn’t swing a cat in.

  9. I’d prefer if they lowered tax on small cars, but that’s delusional thinking

  10. I hope so, the amount of people driving those things in Dublin is insane. Dangerous for everyone.

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