Vehicle registration fees, like many others, are 100% a blunt money collection mechanism imposed by the government. This has nothing to do with a poor or wealthy person buying a new Playstation 5.

They pay for the cost of that service. This is an optional service for those who choose to register a vehicle. Charging people things based on yearly income means the richest people will pay nothing as the bulk of their income isn't realized yearly. Maybe you want to charge people by total wealth but in those cases the richest have wealth available under different names in parts of the world unauditable by a state agency. Add in the cost to determine these figures now it costs a few thousand to register a vehicle.

Who mentioned anything about vehicle registration fees? I assumed OP meant servicing and such.

I'm the OP. I was specifically referring to registration.

Vehicle registration fees are a way of offsetting a small part of the massive subsidies the government gives to vehicles. If anything, they should be much higher for everyone.

Nope, that's idiotic.

If you want them to pay, tax the fuel and consumables like tyres, or put a tax based on how hard is to recycle the car once it hits the scrapper. Bit more complex with EVs I admit, but making someone pay just for keeping car even if they use it once a week is silly.

Yearly fee should be proportional to legalese required to keep it registered (paying wages), not much more.

> a blunt money collection mechanism imposed by the government

Do you mean tax? I think you mean a tax, on owning a car. Nothing promised in life but death and taxes.