Deputies approved the abolition of the standard in the 2024 state budget proposal (OE2024), which stipulated that the Single Circulation Tax (IUC) on cars registered until June 2007 would be increased by 25 euros next year.
The proposal to abolish this tax increase, endorsed by the PS, was approved without votes against and with Livre abstaining. The opposition’s proposals, which also aimed to abolish the IUC increase for older cars, were rejected by the PS.
The phased increase in the IUC was one of the OE2024 measures that caused the most controversy and challenge, as it provides for an increase in the IUC for these cars, at a rate of 25 euros per year, until they reach the tax for equivalent cars reach, but registered as of July 2007.
The outcome of the measure would ultimately be decided when the PS, which has a majority in parliament, announced that the abolition of this measure would be included in the proposed changes to OE2024.
On the occasion, the leader of the PS Parliament, Eurico Brilhante Dias, pointed out that from the beginning there had always been the intention of the majority of the deputies in his bench to amend the government’s initial proposal on the IUC, because this had resulted in many citizens having a “perception of social injustice”.
Source: DN
