Cheap Filters End Up Being Really Expensive

Cheap Filters End Up Being Really Expensive
Cheap Filters End Up Being Really Expensive

Video: Cheap Filters End Up Being Really Expensive

Video: Cheap Filters End Up Being Really Expensive
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A soot particle filter must deliver what it promises. Otherwise, the state can claim back the tax bonus granted - and not only that.

Diesel drivers who have their car retrofitted with an ineffective soot particle filter from GAT, Bosal or Tenneco / Walker are threatened with additional tax payments. According to information from the magazine "Auto Bild", Federal Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück (SPD) is planning to reclaim the tax assessments from the owners concerned. If the plan is implemented, around 40,000 drivers would have to repay the one-time tax bonus of 330 euros granted in the course of the retrofitting, reports the magazine published in Hamburg (issue 46/2007).

Checks have shown that the soot filters from GAT, Bosal and Tenneco / Walker do not fulfill the prescribed effect. The companies have therefore taken them off the market in the meantime. In addition, their general operating permits (ABE) have been deleted by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) in Flensburg. Since then, workshops are no longer allowed to mount the filters.

It was still unclear what would happen to "cheap filters" that were already installed. While the KBA is of the opinion that the deletion of the ABE has no influence on the operating license of the vehicles in which one of the affected products was installed, environmentalists are calling for a reversal: The “fraud systems” would have to be expanded again and should not be subsidized by the state. If the repayment plan is implemented, the diesel cars would be taxed higher again, according to “Auto Bild”: For a two-liter diesel, 96 euros more tax would be due per year. (dpa)

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