10.03.2017

Romania's environment ministry has set up a working commission to look into introducing a new tax on pollution to be charged for second-hand cars, environment minister Gratiela Gavrilescu said more

04.22.2013

Romania’s Environmental Fund budget this year includes 400 million lei (EUR92 million) to cover refund claims on car taxes, Finance Minister Daniel Chitoiu said Monday. more

02.13.2013

Romania’s Government will approve a new car tax system though an emergency ordinance Tuesday, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Wednesday. more

01.29.2013

The environmental stamp duty computational formula complies with the requirements of the European Commission and will help reduce imports of polluting cars, says Brent Valmar, vice-president of the more

01.24.2013

The 11th modification of the car pollution tax and its change into an environmental stamp duty will encourage imports of old, polluting cars, while sales of new cars will continue to decline, players more

01.23.2013

Romania’s Government proposes a new formula to compute the car pollution tax, which increases by about 10% the sum to be paid for Euro 4 and Euro 3 cars, and lowers by 60% to 90% the tax to be paid more

01.17.2013

Romania’s Environment Minister Rovana Plumb proposed in the Government’s Wednesday meeting that the new environmental tax should be applied only to vehicles seating up to eight passengers and more

01.09.2013

Romanian transporter association UNTRR proposes several measures to protect the environment and attract revenues to the state budget, such as replacing the car pollution tax with an annual car tax to more

01.04.2013

Romania will keep its car registration tax and will not replace it with an environmental tax, for the time being. more

10.10.2012

Romania’s Parliament on Wednesday approved a government emergency decree that postpones the country’s car pollution tax until January 1, 2013. more

08.14.2012

Romania’s Government must refund a total EUR400 million to car owners who paid the illegal car tax charged by the former Government, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Tuesday. more

08.09.2012

Romania’s Government must adopt a normative act to return the car tax collected illegally and settle the legal actions started by car owners to recover their money, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said more

06.18.2012

Romania's Environment Minister Rovana Plumb said Monday she has told the government workgroup in charge of reanalyzing the car pollution tax that there are six million people on the brink of poverty more

03.15.2012

Romania's Government this year expects to collect the lowest revenue from the car pollution tax since it was introduced, no more than 275 million lei (EUR63 million), ten times less than the 2011 more

03.06.2012

The Romanian Government estimates the car pollution tax will bring total revenues of only 624 million lei (EUR143 million) to the state budget in 2012, three times lower than last year’s forecast more

01.30.2012

Romania's Government on Monday decided that the car pollution tax, charged on the first sale of cars registered before 2007, would be suspended until next year, with a refund offered to car owners who more

01.26.2012

Romania's Government will suspend the car pollution tax to "reevaluate" its social impact and will refund people who bought used cars since January 13, 2012 and paid the tax, although this will cost more

01.25.2012

Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely informed the Government Wednesday about his plan to suspend for one year the application of the pollution tax upon the first sale of cars registered in more

01.23.2012

Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely on Monday proposed that the application of the pollution tax upon the first sale of cars registered in Romania before January 1, 2007 be suspended for more

01.16.2012

More than 2 million Romanians will no longer be able to sell their cars, which are registered before 2007, because of the new pollution tax, which in the case of older cars amounts to at least half more

01.11.2012

Romania's Government estimates the total value of car pollution tax refunds, resulting from the difference between the old tax and the new tax, will not exceed 200 million lei (EUR45.8 million), said more

01.10.2012

Romanian car owners for whom the car pollution tax paid since July 1, 2008 is higher than the tax according to the new system may request a refund of the difference, but this refund will also be more

01.05.2012

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday passed the law on the car pollution tax, the Presidential Administration said in a press release. more

12.15.2011

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies on Thursday adopted a bill on the car pollution tax, which amends the first registration tax criticized by the Court of Justice of the European Union. more

10.31.2011

Romania's Senate on Monday adopted a bill on the car pollution tax, which amends the first registration tax criticized by the Court of Justice of the European Union. more