Every Car Owner To Give $350 More To Government In Belarus

• 2.02.2016, 14:38

Belarusian authorities think big when it comes to exactions.

Leu Marholin, an economist and the deputy head of the United Civil Party, wrote on this on the website ucpb.org.

"In our country when the government increases exactions, it thinks big. In its opinion it’s better to raise the charges by times rather than waste time on trifles, raising them by percents!

By this I mean the recycling tax on cars, imported from the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union, which will rise from February 4. The rates will rise by 1.65 times for legal entities and by 8.25 times for individuals.

Now, if you managed to find the money to buy a 4-year car in Russia, please, check your pockets once again and find some 350 dollars more to pay the car recycling tax. Come on! I would recycle dozen cars for this money – I would cut them into pieces and sell them for scrap. I would even get some money from that.

It is clear that this tax has nothing to do with recycling. It has to do with the empty treasury. The logic is simple: if the money is not enough, one can take it from those who still have it. From those who buy cars, use the Internet, talk on the phone. So new ingenious solutions are not far off.

I recall an anecdote of the thirties, which I have heard from my grandmother. An anonymous letter to NKVD: “Pay attention, my neighbor eats caviar!” After a couple of years, “Pay attention, my neighbor eats meat.” In a few years, one more anonymous letter to the same place: “Pay attention, my neighbor eats!”.

You’ve taken the right way, comrades!“ – Leu Marholin wrote.