Bicycle tax
The bicycle tax (also known more rarely as a bicycle tax ) was a tax on the ownership of bicycles , motorcycles, and automobiles . Today there is a motor vehicle tax , but it is not applied to bicycles because they are not motor vehicles.
A bicycle tax was first introduced in France with the law of April 28, 1893, Italy followed suit nationwide on July 22, 1897.
In Germany, Bremen and the Grand Duchy of Hesse first introduced such a tax in 1899.
Owners of bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles had to apply for a so-called “ticket” (today a vehicle registration document ) on which a stamp duty was levied.
It amounted to in Hessen z. B. 5 marks for bicycles and 5 to 50 marks for automobiles, depending on their size, purchase price and performance. Military personnel, wage workers, insofar as they used the vehicle to commute to work, tradespeople with an annual income of up to 1,500 marks and spa vacationers were exempt from the tax .
In France, 6 francs per bicycle seat was charged annually, and 12 francs per seat for motorcycles. In 1900, 5.5 million francs were added to the tax office in this way, which was levied on a total of 987,130 bicycles and 2,897 automobiles.
In Austria, the bicycle tax was introduced in several federal states in the First Republic, for example in Upper Austria in 1933, in Salzburg in 1934 and in Carinthia in 1935. In Styria, between 1936 and 1938, 5 schillings each were levied. With the support of the Radfahrer-Gauverband and the trade union federation, an assistant from the Graz University of Technology, Traugott Schiffmann, collected 6,000 signatures against it and was therefore prosecuted by the authorities. The tax was lifted after the so-called Anschluss by the National Socialist German Reich.
In 1945 a bicycle tax of RM 12 per year was introduced in the Saar area. The taxation was personal and had to be evidenced by a cycling badge in the identity card .
The last charge for the Velovignette in Switzerland and Liechtenstein in 2011 was liability insurance for cyclists and not tax.
See also
Web links
- EXCURSION: number boards and charges on bicycles. Archived from the original on September 17, 2008 . Number plates and taxes on bicycles (history of bicycle tax in Styria)
Individual evidence
- ^ Official Journal of the Saar Regional Council. 1945, issue 8, p. 23 ( PDF; 246 kB ).
- ↑ Press release Federal Roads Office of 23 May 2011