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Romanian Government approves Fiscal Code and Fiscal Procedure Code amendments

The Government on Wednesday approved the amendments to the Fiscal Code and the Fiscal Procedure Code, Premier Emil Boc announced at the Victoria Palace.

The modifications are mainly aimed at enlarging the tax base, simplifying the statement system, maintaining the regulatory framework for taxes in case of supplementary properties, measure-taking in the field of excises, adding supplementary requirements on the authorization of fiscal warehouses and improving of the procedure concerning the payment rescheduling.

Vehicle tax is cut by 25 percent

The Government on Wednesday approved the draft law on the tax to be paid for polluting emissions coming from motor vehicles, which stipulates a cut by up to 25 percent in the tax, according to a release that was posted on the Internet page of the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry (MMF), the initiator of the above-mentioned law.

According to the norm-setting document mentioned before, if the pollution tax that was paid after July 1, 2008 is higher than the one resulting from the application of this law, tax payers will be able to ask for the return of the sums of money representing the difference in the tax that was paid.

According to the norm-setting document mentioned before, which relies on the 'polluter pays' principle, the pollution tax will be paid one single time for the new or second-hand motor vehicles registered for the first time in Romania, no matter if the motor vehicle is produced in Romania or abroad, as well as for the motor vehicles registered before 2007 for which such a tax has not been paid.

For the motor vehicles registered before 2007 the pollution tax will be paid when the ownership right of the motor vehicle is transcribed for the first time, when they are sold, after this law comes into force. There is a unitary way of calculating the tax for all the situations in which it is paid. It is calculated on the basis of some criteria such as the type of the drive, the cylinder capacity, the carbon dioxide emission and the pollution norm, also considering the depreciation of the motorcar.

According to the initiator, the draft law also solves the indirect discrimination mentioned by the rulings of the European Court of Justice in the two cases that dealt with the interpretation of Article 110 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. These rulings read that the tax regime stipulated by Emergency Ordinance No 50/2008 does not introduce a direct discrimination, but it can generate an indirect discrimination because of its effects, discouraging motor vehicle imports.

The pollution tax is revenue to the budget of the Environment Fund, out of which several environment programmes are financed: the old car scrapping scheme, the green house programme, the programme meant to afforest degraded land, the ecological reconstruction and sustainable exploitation of forests, the national programme of improving the quality of the environment by creating greens in towns and cities, the programme meant to reduce the impact on water, air and soil, the monitoring of the air quality included.

They also finance the programme for increasing the output of power from renewable sources, the programme meant to protect water resources, water supply integrated systems, treating stations, sewerage and cleaning stations and the programme for making tracks for bicycle riders.

Environment Minister: We shall give back 240 million lei in 2011 after changing vehicle tax

The state will give back to people who had their cars registered in keeping with the old vehicle tax, which is regarded by the European Court of Justice as being discriminatory, about 240 million lei in 2011, said Minister of the Environment and Forestry Laszlo Borbely on Wednesday in the Victoria Palace.

According to the Minister, the calculation of the sums that will have to be given back in 2011 was made considering the 56,000 cars registered this year.

'For the time being we have made an estimate of the sums of money to go to the Environment Fund, but also of the sums to be given back to buyers through the agency of the country directorates of Public Finance. About 110,000 motorcars registered before January 2007 changed their owners in 2010 and did not pay this tax and the additional revenues will be 331 million lei. On the other hand we shall give back about 240 million lei for approximately 56,000 motor vehicles,' explained the Minister of the Environment.

Laszlo Borbely said that 190,000 motorcars in 2010 and 110,000 in 2011 were scrapped through the vehicle tax and the sums the Environment Fund received last year from this tax amounted to 700 million lei.

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