“There definitely will not be (a car pollution tax – BNS), I strongly disagree with it,” J. Taminskas said to Žinių radijas on Thursday.
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The minister emphasized that first of all, the incomes of Lithuanian residents need to be increased so that they can afford to buy non-polluting cars.
“Talking about the measures that Lithuania should apply and introduce pollution taxes on cars is easy to do sitting in Brussels and telling how you should manage here. First, people’s incomes need to be increased, road infrastructure improved, and conditions created for people to buy a better, newer car, not to take away what they have. (…) Everything needs to be evaluated very humanely, economically, and not try to impose from palubinsko,” J. Taminskas explained.
J. Taminskas says it is necessary to take into account the incomes of residents in the Lithuanian region when making a decision about the car pollution tax.
“You need to go to the regions and see what the age of the car fleet is there, how people live there, what their incomes are, how far they need to travel to schools, medical institutions,” he explained.
As BNS wrote, the Seimas rejected a law in 2022 that proposed to abandon the car registration fee and keep only the annual pollution tax.
The Ministry of Environment proposed to collect the tax from 2023, but during the transitional period it would have been half as much, and the full amount would have started to apply in 2025.
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