Regitra’s representative advises: to avoid surprises, take a look at the CO2 emissions of the car you are buying

“To avoid surprises when registering, you have to pay 200 euros,” he said at Delfi 11.

At that time, Tadas Povilauskas, Chief Economist at SEB Bank, said that one of the advantages of the new tax is that from July 1, everyone will know what their CO2 emissions are when buying a car.

“It will make you think about what you are buying,” he said.

Payment procedure

Delphi Already on Monday, to save money and not pay the tax, which will apply from July 1, drivers rushed to register their available vehicles and flocked to Regitra branches. There were rows in them.

S. Šuminas recalled even before that the tax will be paid by M1 and N1 vehicle managers, who will register the vehicles in Lithuania for the first time. You will also have to pay when you change the driver of the vehicle.

“The tax covers all vehicles that exceed 130 grams of CO2 per kilometer in terms of pollution,” said Schumin.

He advised using the calculator available on the Regitra website. “The rate will range between 13 and 540 euros,” added the interlocutor.

S. Šuminas also said that if the vehicle is registered in Lithuania, CO2 emissions can be seen in column V7 of the technical passport.

“I will only point out that on vehicles manufactured before 2011, that attribute was not written. There is also a calculator for this, according to which we evaluate, “he said.

Predict change

T. Povilauskas assessed that the effective tax is not the most effective, but we should be glad that it has finally been reached.

“Economists have been talking about the automobile pollution tax for at least 10 years. There was a conviction that if it were adopted, it would be the 3rd year of the Seimas. Now that the Seimas mandate ends, we have several months left and we have a long-awaited solution.

I would like to welcome the first step. However, we do everything very carefully. However, there are two ways: an annual fee or a registration fee. In this case, the rates had to be higher. Now there is a soft option.

The fee will be about 150 euros, divided between 5 years, it will be about 30 euros per year. It may not have a greater impact on people’s choices, “said the economist.

T. Povilauskas also guessed that in the coming years we will see a series of changes in this tax.