Starting with this year, the business entities that pay an ecological tax will be able to pay this by the date of 25 of the next month, not on the importation date as earlier. Also, the environment pollution tax that was managed by the Customs Service will be now administered by the State Tax Service, IPN reports.

In a press release, the State Tax Service says the pollution tax is to be paid by legal entities, regardless of the type of ownership and legal organizational form, and by private individuals who perform entrepreneurial activities and who produce, import or purchase goods in plastic packing from business entities that operate in Moldova and do not have fiscal relations with its budget system. These goods include those packed in corrugated cardboard, with or without aluminum foil or polyethylene.

The ecological tax includes the same types of payment: for emissions of pollutants by stationery sources; for discharges of pollutants; for storing production waste and for goods that pollute the environment when being used.

The tax rates are determined depending on the type of products, type of packing and their capacity.