The tax paid by owners of motor vehicles registered in Moldova will be by 50% higher this year, as provided in the 2015 state budget law adopted by the Government by assuming responsibility for it. The goal of the rise is to collect more money for rehabilitating the network of roads, IPN reports.
Following the rise and taking into account the number of units of transport for which taxes will be calculated, the incomes from road taxes are projected to total 380 million lei. Of this sum, 295.7 million lei will represent the taxes paid on motor vehicles registered in Moldova for using public roads (50% of the collected amounts are transferred to the budgets of the territorial-administrative units), 60 million lei – the road tolls, 9.1 million lei - the taxes paid on authorizations issued by the authorities for international road transport, while 15.1 million lei – other road taxes.