The Chisinau Municipal Council approved local taxes for 2024 on Tuesday. Based on the collection of local taxes, it is planned to gather in the municipal budget the amount of 387.8 million lei, which represents 5% of the total budget revenues or 10.6% of own revenues. The representatives of the municipality said that the taxes will be applied once the draft decision is approved and will not have retroactive effect, IPN reports.

According to the project, the tax for territorial planning is 185 lei, and as a result it is planned to collect 41.4 million lei. The parking fee is 35 lei for one square meter, with an impact of 9 million lei. The sanitation tax remains at the level of 10 lei per month, with an impact of 28 million lei, and the tax for dog owners – 120 lei a year. The tax for advertising devices is 865 lei for one square meter and 400 lei per square meter for advertising images for vehicles, with an impact of 13.2 million lei.

The market tax varies between 17 and 970 lei for a square meter, with revenues estimated at 12.8 million lei. The tax for taxi passenger services will be 400 lei, and the tax for the provision of road passenger transport services remains at the level of previous years.

From the fee for organizing tender contests and lotteries, revenues of 20.3 million lei are planned to be collected. From the fees for the application of local symbolism, budget revenues in the amount of one million lei are planned to be accumulated, while the tax for accommodation would bring 28 million lei to the municipal budget.

At the CMC meeting, the head of the General Finance Division Olesea Psenitski said that the document was drafted taking into account the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding concluded between the local public authorities of Chisinau and the USAID Program, which proposed the indexation of local taxes to the level of the inflation rate for the previous year.

“Considering that in 2022 the inflation rate was 28.7%, but in order not to put economic agents in a situation, not to exert financial pressure, we proposed this adjustment of 6%. For the municipal budget, this adjustment amounts to 67 million lei,” noted the head of the General Finance Division.