하이브리드차 개소세 감면 연말 종료…전기차는 생산세액공제서도 빠져

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Under the "2026 Tax Code Amendment Bill" announced by the government on August 3, the individual consumption tax reduction for hybrid vehicles, which had been applied up to a maximum of 700,000 won per vehicle, will end on December 31 of this year. Whereas the benefit for hybrids disappears all at once, the caps for electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles will be scaled back in stages. In 2027 they will fall to 2 million won for electric vehicles and 3 million won for hydrogen vehicles respectively. In 2029 the government intends to end the reduction scheme itself and consolidate it into fiscal support such as purchase subsidies. Meanwhile, electric vehicles themselves were left out of the scope of the "domestic production tax credit" newly established in the same bill. Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy Koo Yun-cheol explained that the design gives credits to things such as secondary batteries, the core of electric vehicles, so that electric vehicles gain competitiveness.