Lowering vehicle tax on older cars
Act amending the annex to the Vehicle Tax Act
The basic tax component of vehicle tax on passenger cars and vans will be reduced by a total of 10 million euros. The reduction mainly applies to internal combustion engine cars that are at least ten years old.
- Status
- In progress
- Submitted
- 21 Sep 2026
- Latest event
- 29 Sep 2026
- Votes
- 0
- Source
- eduskunta.fi ↗
What is proposed
The basic tax component of vehicle tax will be reduced for older passenger cars and vans whose emissions were measured using the old NEDC method or whose tax is determined on the basis of total mass. Newer cars measured using the WLTP method will be excluded from the reduction, so their taxation will remain unchanged. The change will reduce central government tax revenues by approximately 10 million euros per year.
What it means
The tax reduction will affect approximately 1.7 million cars in 2028, and their annual vehicle tax will decrease by an average of six euros. The reduction will proportionally benefit lower-income households and residents of more remote areas the most, where owning older cars is more common. The act will enter into force on 1 January 2027, but the reduced tax will in practice apply to tax accruing from 1 January 2028.
How Parliament voted
Consideration is ongoing: Parliament has not yet voted on the bill in plenary.
Stages of consideration
The bill's path from the preliminary debate to the decision, as recorded by Parliament.
- 21 Sep 2026Eduskuntakäsittelyn vireilletulo · Valtiovarainministeriö
- 25 Sep 2026Lähetekeskustelu · Täysistunto
Decisions by law proposal1
- 1Laki ajoneuvoverolain liitteen muuttamisesta
Proposed law text
The law proposals in the bill as the Government presented them. The final act may differ after committee consideration.
The law text is shown in Finnish or Swedish from Parliament's official documents; it is not translated into English.
Laki ajoneuvoverolain liitteen muuttamisesta
Eduskunnan päätöksen mukaisesti muutetaan ajoneuvoverolain (1281/2003) liitteen verotaulukot 1 ja 2, sellaisina kuin ne ovat, verotaulukko 1 laissa 814/2024 ja verotaulukko 2 laissa 1223/2023, seuraavasti:
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Tämä laki tulee voimaan päivänä kuuta 20 .
Päivää kohden kannettavan veron määrä lasketaan lain voimaan tullessa voimassa olleiden säännösten mukaisesti 31 päivään joulukuuta 2027.
Main content of the bill (official)
The summary and title were produced with AI on 23 Sep 2026. They are not official documents – check the details in the original bill. The title and summaries are machine translations of the Finnish AI summaries. Speeches and quotations are always shown in their original language.