page_title: Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles
section_title: Tonnage and acquisition tax reductions
hierarchical_section_title: Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles / Asia / Japan / Tonnage and acquisition tax reductions
caption_attribution_description: English: Electric-car. Made by Mitsubishi mortors. 日本語: ローソン電気自動車。ローソン市民病院前店で撮影
context_page_description: Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles have been established around the world to support policy-driven adoption of plug-in electric vehicles. These incentives mainly take the form of purchase rebates, tax exemptions and tax credits, and additional perks that range from access to bus lanes to waivers on fees. The amount of the financial incentives may depend on vehicle battery size or all-electric range. Often hybrid electric vehicles are included. Some countries extend the benefits to fuel cell vehicles, and electric vehicle conversions.
  More recently, some government have also established long term regulatory signals with specific target timeframes such as ZEV mandates, national or regional CO
  2 emissions regulations, stringent fuel economy standards, and the phase-out of internal combustion engine vehicle sales. For example, Norway set a national goal that all new car sales by 2025 should be zero emission vehicles. Other countries have announced similar targets for the electrification of their vehicle fleet, most within a timeframe between 2030 and 2050.
context_section_description: New next generation vehicles, including electric and fuel cell vehicles, plug-in hybrids, hybrid electric vehicles, clean diesel and natural gas vehicles are exempted from both the acquisition tax and the tonnage tax. Acquisition taxes on used vehicles were to be reduced by 1.6% to 2.7%, or between 150,000 yen (~US$1,600) and 300,000 yen (~US$3,200), as of 2010. Electric and fuel cell vehicles have a 2.7% reduction while plug-in hybrids have a 2.4% reduction.
  These incentives are effected from April 1, 2009, until March 31, 2012, for the acquisition tax which is paid once at the time of purchase. The tonnage tax reductions are in effect from April 1, 2009, until April 30, 2012, and the incentive is applicable once, at the time of the first mandatory inspection, three years after the vehicle purchase. As an example, the amount exempted for the purchase of a new next generation vehicle is 81,000 yen (~US$975) corresponding to the acquisition tax, and 22,500 yen (~US$271) for the tonnage tax, for a total of 103,500 yen (~US$1,246).
caption: The cost of the Mitsubishi i MiEV in Japan falls from ¥4 million to ¥2.8 million after all government incentives are discounted from the sales price.[26]
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