Experts spoke about the reasons for the growth of the utilization fee

The increase in revenues from the utilization fee can be primarily attributed to changes in its size. On the territory of the Russian Federation, 1,836,029 new cars (up to 3 years old) were sold, which is 39% more than last year's figures (1,319,862 units), follows from the data of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, which were reviewed by "Izvestia" on January 29.

In addition, the market volume of new imported cars reached 633% in October 2024 (January 2022 is taken as 100%), 410% in November 2024; and 417% in December.

"This indicates that the market size for imported vehicles has increased in 2024 and can be attributed to the regulatory changes in this segment, particularly the increase in the utilization fee. Consumers wanted to buy a car before and increased demand for them, including imported cars," explained Dmitry Baranov, a leading expert at Finam Management MC.

According to him, this may be due to an increase in supply in the automobile market, in 2024, new foreign car brands were introduced in the market, this interested consumers and influenced demand. Also, parallel imports continued to develop, in particular, car brands that had previously stopped working in the country, but the demand for them remained, they continued to be imported here.

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In addition, the increase in passenger car production in the country is due to government support for the auto industry and consumer demand for domestic cars.

"One of the important reasons for the excess of utilization fee indicators compared to the previous reporting period is the realization of so-called parallel imports. As a result, there were grounds for additional payment of the utilization fee to a large extent in terms of passenger cars," said Baranov, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics of PFUR.

The expert notes that the utilization fee was introduced in 2012 and one of the main goals of such a measure is to stimulate vehicle manufacturers to improve technical characteristics, including environmental ones. The same applies to importers. In turn, car owners are motivated to change less environmentally friendly cars to more environmentally friendly ones.

Earlier, January 14, it was reported that since the beginning of January, prices for new passenger cars in Russia increased by 1.5-5% for a number of models. According to the analytical agency "Avtostat", at the beginning of the year, the prices for cars brands Haval, Great Wall, Wey, Tank, Chery and Exeed, as well as Lada have changed. In some cases, the increase amounted to Br560 thousand.