Half of Europe slashes pump price, but not Norway

Knut Arild Nordli owns and operates several heavy truck schools in western Norway. This means that it fills the tank on a trailer nearly every day.

In one year, these landfills will cost more than 1 million kroner in VAT and diesel taxes.

It’s a lot of money for a company with four employees, and an amount of money he has to agree to continue paying in the future.

Obviously after Finance Minister Trygiv Slagsvold Widom (Sp) Emphasizes “There are no changes to fuel taxes in our tax and fee scheme.”

The statement came after pressure from political opponents as well political allies. NRK has previously written about county leaders and mayors from the Center Party who have called on the ‘President’ to take action on them. Dramatic energy prices.

Sweden reduces fuel tax by 1.30 SEK per liter

As many other countries across Europe have shown that they have to a greater extent Learn about the rising fuel prices.

– The vast majority of countries we like to compare ourselves to have offensive countermeasures to spare motorists, win over Thor Eagle Bradland and the NAF.

In May, the Swedish government reduced the fuel tax by 1.30 NOK per liter.

previous owners DenmarkAustria, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Poland, the Netherlands and Spain are taking different measures control To reduce pumping prices.

The last time came Germany, which this month cut taxes to the minimum.

The regions will be most affected

Asgeir Gil, County Leader at Sogn Oog Fjordane Truck Owners Association

– It is very disappointing that commercial transport is not matched by any kind of tax exemption from the current government. Since early March, the FNL has tried to cut taxes to help the hard-pressed transport industry, the government’s response has been “wait and see”. The answer we received today was once again disappointing. Once again, the worst affected areas. It should be possible to provide remedial measures for commercial transport, without being critical to the warming of the economy.

The increased costs of transport buyers must also be recovered from the increased costs of the final product, which in turn will lead to higher inflation. With the tax exemption offered in other countries, the competition distortion for Norwegian carriers becomes even greater, as foreign trucks can enter the country with several hundred liters of diesel in tanks, and thus have lower costs than Norwegian trucks. There are also many who find it difficult to regulate their agreements in order to reduce increased costs, especially in connection with state doctors or municipal contracts. Looking back to 2020, the net diesel price was just over 11 kroner, and today the net price is around 20 kroner. This is a huge increase in the costs of our industry.

There is a lot one might want to say today, the disappointment is great, and not everything is fit to say in the media. This can have severe consequences for many in the industry. It should also be noted that many of our transportation buyers have shown great understanding to meet us with increased freight, but it is also a weak point for many companies in the regions.

So Nordley had hope that the Norwegian government would be inspired by neighbors on the continent, and cut the value-added tax.

– I will get nothing from the state, but the state will not have our weakness, he says.

Geir A. Moer Director of the Norwegian Truck Owners Association.

– We are an international industry, and if our competitors in neighboring countries take advantage of the various facilities, it will lead to skewed competition since these companies also operate in the Norwegian market, he says (see fact box for additional answers).

– Price week affected commercial transportation severely

Mo, CEO of the Norwegian Truck Owners’ Federation (NLF)

– In a few days we have two new diesel price records. Diesel has never been so expensive in Norway before. Such sharp increases in short order result in companies not being able to compensate for this with their customers – and those who are the worst off to negotiate with are the public sector itself. The SVV and other public actors refuse to compensate the carriers while the state is making billions. This price week affects food transport severely. We need targeted measures to prevent the disappearance of Norwegian jobs and stop the transfer, as demanded by the National Liberation Front, along with many other organizations.

The government, led by Finance Minister Vidom, has long said it will assess the situation and take action if things go wrong. Now not only is it worse, it is now on the verge of collapse! Norway currently has tremendous additional income, and we expect a portion of it to be used to save an industry affected by consequences beyond our control.

We are an international industry and if our competitors in neighboring countries take advantage of various facilities that offer lower fuel prices than Norway, it will skew the competition in them because these also operate in the Norwegian market.

– The road usage fee for public transport must be reset

NHO Transport regulates Norwegian bus companies that also know fuel prices.

– The government should reset the road use tax for public transport so that fuel prices can be lowered to the previous level. We have to deal with this matter with both the ministers and parliament, victory John H. sturdang, who is it CEO of NHO Transport.

In the government’s logic, budget equilibrium and the risk of overheating and (even) rising interest rates mean it is not appropriate to lower pump rates.

feet friday Statistics Norway (SSB) hill Which indicates that prices in May were 5.7 percent higher than last year. This is it The highest price growth More than twelve months since 1988.

– Nobody buys anything without the need for transportation. Those lower transportation costs would be a good measure to reduce cost development, says Tori Walstad, who works in the daily camper at Tenden Transport in Stryn in Nordfjord.

He points out that their companies were satisfied with the introduction of their own oilPlugins »which is a variable profit margin that is adjusted every week according to the price of dieselThis comes on top of the price customers would have to pay otherwise.

– We have no choice but to do otherwise. The alternative, Walstad says, is layoffs.

Minister We hope the price will drop again soon

In the government announcement – the so-called hurdahl platform It stipulated that “the government will reduce taxes that affect most people, such as fuel taxes,” and in March Vedom announced that the government would “take action” if the price level continued. At that time, the price was 26 kroner.

Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Sp) wrote in written answer to Parliament last week.

in political district On Friday morning, the leader of the Sogen og Fjordane Center party, Erlind Haugen Herstad, called for “targeted measures for heavy transport and machinery operators with big ideas to fill it”.

He understood that the government “should weigh this against increasing interest rates”, but added that targeted measures, such as “favorable loans for example”, would in all lead to lower prices and “do something about inflation”.

– We will not sit around and give people hope

Spokesperson for the Center Party’s new fiscal policy in ParliamentJair Bulstad (Sp) replied that the idea of taking out a loan to the transportation industry was a “constructive entrance”, but he “didn’t want to sit back and give hope to people”.

– Otherwise, he said, we deceive people.

He admitted that the situation was “unpleasant” and that it was a “difficult pedagogical exercise” to talk about the expensive time, the “interest specter” and the economy in the economy when the Norwegian economy is in good shape.

– Things are going well in Norway, and then we have to cut spending.

He added that it would cost the state 12 billion to reduce the price of fuel by 4 kroner, and that the social gain is greater by reducing the price of electricity than the price of fuel.