VW Group to incur additional tax costs for misreported emissions

Volkswagen (VW) has said that any increase in taxes resulting from incorrectly reported CO2 emissions should be charged to the company rather than the owners.

In a letter to European Union finance ministers seen by Reuters, VW Group boss Matthias Müller requested that the VW Group incur any additional tax charges for misreported emissions instead of the motorists themselves.

Müller’s request follows the news that the VW Group wrongly reported the CO2 emissions of around 800,000 vehicles. This is of particular importance to the UK market as car tax is linked directly to CO2 emissions, and even small increases in emissions can alter a car’s vehicle excise duty.

Details of which cars are effected, and which countries they were sold in, have still not been revealed, although VW has confirmed that both petrol and diesel cars were involved in the misreporting of CO2 figures.

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