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Automobile malus fee increases as of March 1, 2025

Publié le 24 février 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

A new car malus scale applies to vehicles registered from 1er March 2025; the maximum amount is set at €70,000. This ecological malus is a tax to be paid when registering particularly polluting vehicles. The more polluting the vehicle, the higher the tax.

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Motor vehicle malus is an additional tax levied on the vehicle registration certificate; it applies in particular to passenger cars. It is composed of carbon dioxide emissions tax (CO2 malus) and malus mass (malus mass).

As of 1er March 2025, the malus CO2 is enhanced. This increase follows the promulgation of the 2025 budget. This text also provides for an evolution of the malus mass scale in 2026.

Reminder

You must pay for the CO malus2 and mass when applying for registration of the vehicle on the website of the National Agency for Secure Titles (NSA). If the dealer is responsible for registration, you must pay the tax at the same time as the vehicle purchase invoice.

What’s the carbon-dioxide price tag for malus?

From 1er march 2025:

  • Malus applies from 113 grams of CO2/km (instead of 118 grams of CO2/km until 28 February 2025) with a pollution tax of €50.
  • The threshold of €1,000 of taxation is reached from 136 grams of CO2/km (€1074), instead of 141 grams of CO2/km until 28 February 2025.
  • The last installment of the scale shall be €70,000 for vehicles with carbon dioxide emissions of more than 192 grams CO2/km (instead of €60,000 until 28 February 2025 for vehicles with carbon dioxide emissions exceeding 193 grams of CO2/km).

Find in its entirety of the scale applicable from 1er March 2025, and those for 2026 and 2027.

Malus by weight on vehicles over 1.6 tons

In 2025, as in 2024, malus mass applies for newly registered vehicles weighing more than 1.6 tons (1,600 kg), compared to 1.8 tons (1,800 kg) in 2023. The 2025 budget provides thatfrom 2026 it will apply from 1.5 tons (1,500 kg).

The scale in force since the 1er January 2024 has been resumed for 2025. This scale associates a marginal tariff with each fraction of the mass in running order. The scale ranges from €10 for the mass fraction in running order between 1 600 kg and 1 799 kg, to €30 for the mass fraction from 2 100 kg. The amount of the mass malus is equal to the sum of the proceeds of each fraction by the associated marginal tariff. You can find an example of calculation application on our factsheet “Tax on the mass in running order of passenger vehicles (malus mass)”, and you can use our simulator to calculate the mass malus amount for your vehicle.

Since 1er january 2025, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with an all-electric range in town greater than 50 km are no longer exempt from malus masse.

FYI  

The cumulative amount of malus mass and malus CO2 is capped at the maximum amount of malus CO2, or EUR 70 000 from 1er March 2025. If the malus CO2 for your vehicle is 70,000 €, malus mass does not apply.

Which vehicles are exempt from malus automobile?

Are not affected by CO malus2 and malus mass:

  • wheelchair accessible vehicles;
  • vehicles acquired by a person with a Mobility Inclusion Card (MIC) marked as Disability, or a Military Disability Card;
  • vehicles acquired by a person who has a dependent in his or her tax household who has a child holding an MIF marked as invalidity, or who has a military invalidity card;
  • electric and/or hydrogen vehicles.

FYI  

A large family (at least 3 dependent children), including a host family, can benefit under certain conditions a reduction in the car malus. One simulator allows you to evaluate according to your situation the amount of the refund that can be made on the malus that you paid when registering the vehicle.

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