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Bulgaria's Cabinet to debate increasing road tax vignettes

Tue, Oct 27 2009 09:51 CET byDnevnik.bg 647 Views 1 Comment
Bulgaria's Cabinet to debate increasing road tax vignettes

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Bulgaria will increase the fees for road tax vignettes for light motor vehicles, lorries and buses from 2010, Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev told Bulgarian National Radio.

The proposal will be reviewed at the October 28 weekly meeting of the Cabinet, he said.

In an interview with Bulgarian-language daily Standart daily, Plevneliev said that the decision to increase the road tax was based on the need to plug the yawning budget gap inherited from the former government headed by socialist leader Sergei Stanishev.

The National Road Infrastructure Agency ran out of money in spring 2009, Plevneliev said. Proceeds from the road tax will be used to fund road repairs. Last year proceeds amounted to 217 million leva. More than 103 million leva was collected in January 2009 alone.

Currently light motor vehicles and vans pay 10 leva for a weekly vignette. A monthly vignette costs 25 leva and an annual vignette 67 leva. Truck drivers buy a daily vignette for 20 leva.

The price for a week is 110 leva, for a month 300 leva and for a year, 950 leva. Stickers for intercity buses cost 20 leva a day, 65 leva a week, 170 leva a month and 500 leva a year.

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Anonymous expat Tue, Oct 27 2009 10:48 CET
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if the money is really spent for improvement of road infrastructure that it is worth discussing it, my doubts are that the additional money is wasted in the inefficiency swamp within government institutions.

All outside observers still are laughing about a statement from one of the former infrastructure ministers who proudly announced that BG has completed 13 (!!) km of new highway this year (I think it was 2008) :-)))) this guy was hilarious - it seems that he really was convinced that 13 km is really an achievement !! :-))))

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Road tax vignettes' validity extended to 13 months

As a gesture, so car-owners do not have to buy new vignettes over the Christmas holiday period, the validity of road tax vignettes will be extended to the end of January 2010.

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