2019 Automobile Tax: Announced Changes – Who Pays and When It May Come Into Force – Auto

Environment Minister Gratiela Gavrilescu has announced that the future tax that car owners will have to pay will apply to all polluting vehicles, not just those of ten years. The final form of the new car taxes will have more "components", but they will not come into effect on January 1, 2019, according to the minister.

"As I have said time and time again, it's not a pollution tax, an environmental stamp or any other name that includes the word tax." Instead, I argued and I continue to say that the polluter pays not only CO2 emissions, but also waste, and in other cases, the polluter pays.In the working group of specialists of the Ministry of the Environment, the Administration of the Environment Fund, the RAR, the Ministry of Transport and Finance (…), they tried to find a final form by consulting the two Romanian and European car manufacturers. over the years have been able to guide us as specialists in the field and who currently have several consulting firms so that we can not find any form of potential contribution that the citizen should pay in case of CO 2 emission must be overcome when the cylinder used years the vehicle has a certain capacity that can produce emissions and pollution standard ", explained the minister to Ploieşti, writes Digi24.ro.

"The final form is coming in. To be able to implement this contribution, it does not mean that a single component, with more than one component, will also take place and inform the citizens, and may possibly include a grace period for the locals. , for the information and to allow citizens to: be able to make a decision within a more or less long time with their own polluting vehicle for more than ten years and thus giving them the opportunity to buy a clean vehicle ", said Gratiela Gavrilescu.

What the minister said about the new car tax in the past

"There is a working group consisting of our colleagues from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, Transport, to which Romanian car manufacturers and NGOs who have done studies on air quality to find a variant (self-imposed tax) that can no longer be attacked from the point of view of justice and can not be opposed by anyone, "said the Minister of Environment.