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Nova Scotia imposes new tax on EVs and hybrids
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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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Why don't they just tax by amount of electricity charged. Prolly naive, but it's similar to the tax on gas and solves exactly the problem that is brought up with flat payments per car per year.
Weight times distance travelled would be the fairest, but tricky to implement.
Could switch entirely to a tire tax. Semi's pay most, big vehicles regardless of ev/ICE pay more due to large tires, light vehicles pay least due to small cheap tires etc. Probably not a perfect solution, but it feels like it could get close
Because you cannot know what it is used for when delivering it to the customer. And chipping every ev and charging by usage isn't realistic.
That was a great advantage for fuel powered vehicles.
Doesn't mean this isn't a wholly stupid implantation.