Text file: 8772.txt
author: kala
downvotes: 9
end consideration date: 2017-12-05
id: '8772'
number comments: 8
number views: 1673
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Infrastructure\nThe Act on Motor Vehicle\
  \ Levies regulates the obligation to pay the annual levy for the use of motor vehicles\
  \ and trailers registered in the Republic of Slovenia in road transport (hereinafter:\
  \ the annual levy), the method of determining the amount of the annual levy, exemptions\
  \ from the levy, the refund of the pro-rata share, the supervision of the payment\
  \ and the procedures related to the obligation to pay the annual levy.\nIn introducing\
  \ the annual levy, the Republic of Slovenia has followed the practice of other EU\
  \ Member States in introducing such a levy or tax. In addition, it is necessary\
  \ to take into account the obligation to implement Directive 1999/62/EC of the European\
  \ Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1999 on the charging of heavy goods vehicles\
  \ for the use of certain infrastructures (OJ 1999 L No. 1, p. 1). 187 of 20 July\
  \ 1999, p. 42), as amended by Directive 2006/38/EC of the European Parliament and\
  \ of the Council of 17 May 2006 amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of\
  \ heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures (OJ 2006 L 157, p.\
  \ 8), in so far as it relates to vehicle taxation.\nThe following charges are levied\
  \ on vehicles in the Member States:\n the acquisition or purchase of a vehicle -\
  \ VAT, \"sales tax\" - which is regulated in the Republic of Slovenia by the Motor\
  \ Vehicle Tax Act and the Value Added Tax Act; ownership of a vehicle is regulated\
  \ in most other countries as an annual tax on vehicle ownership, regardless of whether\
  \ the vehicle is registered or not. In the Republic of Slovenia, we have this tax\
  \ as a levy introduced by the Motor Vehicle Levy Act, with the difference that the\
  \ levy is linked to the user and not to the owner of the vehicle, as in most other\
  \ Member States, and that the levy is only payable on registered vehicles and not\
  \ for the entire lifetime of the vehicle; registration of the vehicle, insurance\
  \ and so on.\nOn the basis of the above, we consider that the abolition of the annual\
  \ levy would deviate significantly from the arrangements for the payment of the\
  \ necessary levies in the Member States and therefore the citizen's proposal to\
  \ abolish the annual levy is not acceptable."
response date: 2019-12-16
response due date: null
sent date: 2017-11-14
title: abolition of the road user charge for motor vehicles
upvotes: 12
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/8772
