How Exactly Does This Help

   excises = taxes, the treasury is filled. Otherwise there will be no money ....

   How? How cigarettes work - they become so expensive that they start not smoking. In the case of petrol, instead of taxing cars with large engines without knowing who actually drives how much and how much they pollute, they impose excise duty on fuel. If you spend a lot, then you drive, then you are for taxation - you pay with fuel. What they do with money is another matter.

   Yes, of course it is. But the treasury is filled with all sorts of taxes to have money. And excise duties in particular should be for a specific purpose. For example, the idea of ​​excise duty on tobacco and alcohol is because these people are harmful to their health and create additional health care costs and the excise tax should cover these costs, because some non-smokers are not required to pay with their insurance for smoking and alcoholics who have chosen for themselves but are harming themselves. There is logic in this. But there is no logic for fuels. They kind of punish you for polluting the air, but you don't have a choice, because you have to go to work and move anyway, and there's really no way to purify the air with that money. So there seems to be some logic and reason for what specifically to collect taxes,

   The only function of the excise tax is to fill the treasury - otherwise you (us) have peed on health and ecology. And excise and VAT are the fastest and easiest to collect. Various tales of "good for society" are dust in the eyes.

   I am the author again. What I understand is that they just need money for the treasury and whether they will collect it through income tax, VAT or excise is all the same. But if they say that they raise the total income tax from 10 to 20%, then many people will refuse to vote for this party and will hide income, and with the excise tax they twist it, as if it were for ecology, for health and I don't know its what and people still take it a little softer. And the price of fuels constantly varies, so that from a psychological point of view. we don't notice it that much. Just when the excise tax is raised, we say to ourselves "oh, he must have raised the price of oil again, something has happened" and so the work becomes a little quiet, which can't happen with VAT and DOD, because then everyone will get angry, the media will explode and the party's rating will collapse. Besides, you can hide your income relatively easily, if you do not agree with the tax, but you will not pay the excise tax, you will pay it when you buy the fuel and the state collects it immediately and with a higher collection rate. Ie the trick is to collect the tax in the easiest, most efficient and fastest way and to have a "good reason" in front of the people so that the sheep do not roar too much. And then what the money will go for and whether it will be for what they said are details. Did I understand correctly? Obviously yes. Only one thing I still do not understand. To people, when you tell them that you are collecting money for ecology, why no one asks, if I pay 10% more excise duty, how much cleaner my air will become. That alone amazes me. Because think that money does not clean the air. It cleans with filters, with more efficient engines, etc., but these are things that have nothing to do with excises, and you just pay them when you buy the product / service, because in their price this is calculated, because it is a cost for the manufacturer. And to pay for it and for someone to clean my already polluted air, I don't understand. It's not like paying someone to clean up my trash in the yard.

   Don't you think that any of the rulers seriously care about the environment? The important thing is for some people to absorb some money, and what could be better than to absorb the money under the pretext that we care about nature and human health? And then what happens to the money, I think you can think of yourself ... yachts, villas, excursions, silicone for the mistress, a new car every year ...

   8, it is clear that it is so, but at least they had invented some reason, so that at least they had invented it. And what is the reason - to clean the air. And how exactly do they clean that air? Because I don't know of such technology. Enterprise and car filters are another matter and have nothing to do with excise duties. This was my question to me - after this air is supposed to be cleaned, how come a politician in any country has not come out to say exactly how this air is cleaned with these collected excises.

   The author apparently did not read and did not understand what №3 was telling him. The excise tax is levied only on the user of the fuel and thus with a high price of fuel you make the people in the country try and save the fuel, as saving on fuel leads to less air pollution. However, the author does not understand this and wants a simple explanation, but for example I have a powerful car that spends 20-30l / 100km, if the fuel is 1lv instead of 2lv the probability of driving it, just for fun, is twice as much. However, when the fuel is BGN 2, I will think twice when I want to go around the city with this car of mine. That is, the excise tax inhibits my impulses to drive my car aimlessly / for fun / and so the air is cleaner for everyone in our city.

   10, I got it. But it doesn't answer my question. It is clear that the user pays more. However, what the user pays does not lead to a reduction in its consumption, because the price elasticity is low, nor does it lead to any benefits for the environment, as they try to get it, that it is supposed to be an environmental tax. To me, this is exactly the question - since it is supposed to be an environmental tax, how exactly does this collected excise tax reduce emissions, since it neither reduces consumption nor spends on ecology.

   Because the system is rotten and miserable. One pays BGN 50,000 per year, in the form of taxes, excises, VAT, fees, taxis and taxis, and another receives social benefits. Why? Because we have a sick idea of ​​humanism! The excise tax is to take money. And what's going on - things are getting more expensive. And it's harder for all of us. This is not a state policy, THIS IS AD!

   My thought was that everyone pays their excise duty and calms down, ostensibly to keep their air clean, and never wonders what mechanism makes their air cleaner at all, since there is no air at all, and it even feels guilty of not being able to reduce its consumption. And how exactly to reduce it - by stopping traveling to work and leaving? Or by stopping going to the store and stopping eating? Isn't it because someone accused him of driving a car? So everyone pays for something that he himself does not know for what, and it can not even happen what he pays for, that he feels almost guilty. Hey, this is strange to me, I don't know if I can express myself correctly so that you understand me. Do you think I'm right or am I kidding?

   Another excuse for excise duty (just calm down, and I do not approve of it), in addition to the air, is for people to start turning to electric cars (electric cars).

   Author excise DECREASES CONSUMPTION, as the expensive fuel deters my impulses for aimless / for fun / driving my powerful car. People try to save expensive fuel and this helps keep our air cleaner. The logic is that if the excise tax is abolished from today, the traffic in the big cities will increase dramatically. Many people make a shared trip to work to save money, and even around the country, if the fuel is without excise duty, shared travel will decrease and many more people will be able to drive their own car to work or around the country. If the trip with your own car from Sofia to Bourgas cost BGN 20 instead of BGN 40, please tell me who would take a bus or train to Bourgas? Now imagine all the passengers who travel by bus today to drive their own car,

   15, In the USA, for example, at the moment the price of gasoline is about $ 2.50 per American gallon (3.7 liters), which makes about BGN 1.10 / l or half that and less than here. Considering that their salaries are BGN 5,000 per month. For our standard, this is like gasoline being 15-20 cents per liter or 15 times cheaper than our standard. Well, do you think that the air there is 20 times dirtier than Bulgaria? And is it dirtier or cleaner at all? I understand your idea, but the aimless driving in question is probably 2-5% of the total traffic. 95% is for transport of goods, going to work, school, etc. things that are inevitable and must be done no matter how much gasoline is. My personal opinion is that it is not worth paying double the price for 5% less traffic. And also keep in mind that in addition to more expensive transport, you also pay more for each product, because the price of fuel is calculated in the cost of the goods. Imagine that excise duty (almost) does not reduce excise duties, but doubles the cost of fuel and generally significantly increases the cost of living. It's not worth paying for me. It is clear that the whole idea is just to raise money and then spend on completely different things. In France, they began to feel, but here they still believe that the excise tax makes their air cleaner.

   From 15 Authors would not think that I, as a citizen, am paid for the expensive fuel for my car, or I am given more for transport or more expensive goods because of the fuels. I'm not exactly familiar with American law and how much and what taxes their drivers have, but I don't think every American has a car, and every Bulgarian would wonder, since their gasoline is so cheap, why there are Americans walking on foot and driving like that. wheel, not to mention hitchhikers. I think that in America it is a question of some other tax that is taken from them according to other regulations and laws.

   It is strange to me that no one is paid, but no one was interested in whether such a tax makes sense at all and what it is ultimately spent on. I haven't been to America, but I've been told that almost every household has more than one car.