More than 119 thousand have already signed a petition against increasing the MTK for old cars

A public petition against increasing the single turnover tax (SVT) on cars until 2007, included in the draft state budget for 2024 (OE2024), has already collected more than 119 thousand signatures.

A public petition (launched online) addressed to the President of the Assembly of the Republic and the Prime Minister protests against the increase in IUC for cars registered before July 2007 (when the old “car seal” gave way to the IUC), recalling that “the majority of owners” of older cars are “economically more vulnerable” people.

According to information available online, the petition has already collected 119,050 signatures (the number has tripled in about three days), far exceeding the 7,500 signatures needed to debate the topic in Parliament.

This is a measure included in the OE2024 proposal which changes the taxation rules in terms of IUC for vehicles of category A registered before 2007 and motorcycles (category E), determining that they are no longer taxed solely on the basis of cylinder capacity ( as is currently the case) is now considered an environmental component.

Following this change, the IUC rate for this type of vehicle will be increased, with the budget proposal limiting the annual increase to €25 “until the IUC rate represents all taxes associated with the CO2 emissions of these vehicles.”

“The IUC fee relating to vehicles of categories A and E, as a result of the changes introduced by this law, may not increase annually by more than 25 (euros) per vehicle,” the bill OE2024 states.

In a report accompanying the budget proposal, the government justifies the measure on the need to ensure compliance with “environmental requirements”, combining it with “creating an incentive for the recycling of old vehicles, the aim of which is to promote fleet renewal and decarbonise passenger transport”.

The text of the petition “against the expected increase in MSEC on cars until 07-2007” includes news that this tax increase will serve as compensation for “losses from discounts that the government plans to apply” to five highways (formerly SCUT), and the promoters are offering an alternative for revenue collection, proposing that electric vehicles “begin paying IUC according to the power of their engines, eliminating the current exemption, and that they are not subject to the additional carbon levy that applies to internal combustion engine vehicles.”

The petitioners also remember that the owners of these old cars will mainly be people belonging to “more economically vulnerable social groups, since if they had better financial conditions, they could regularly change vehicles.”

For other vehicles, the IUC rate has been updated to 2.9%.