The National Recovery Plan is a fund that was intended to support the reconstruction of the economies of EU Member States after the pandemic. Poland will receive almost EUR 60 billion. The condition for receiving money is to meet the so-called milestones. One of them is the introduction of new fees for combustion cars. Krzysztof Bolesta, Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment, admitted in an interview with “” at the end of February that Poland would soon meet this requirement. Meanwhile, the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy announces that she will fight for the abolition of this obligation.
Talks about revising the KPO. Pełczynska-Nałęcz will demand the abolition of the obligation to introduce fees for combustion cars
Talks regarding the revision of the KPO are ongoing in Brussels. Poland is represented by the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz. – March 15 this year We are starting public consultations on the revision of the National Reconstruction Plan. This is the result of work on the review of reforms and investments from the KPO, which the ministry has been conducting since January. We proposed changes to 11 reforms and 22 investments. Our goal is for KPO to be an investment for generations, with maximum profitability for Polish public finances and the budget, and to support the weakest with this great change, said the minister during a press conference on Friday (March 15).
One of the changes proposed by the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy is the removal of the milestone regarding the introduction of a tax on the ownership of combustion vehicles in Poland, in accordance with the “polluter pays” principle – informs the ministry. The first talks on this subject are scheduled to take place next week.
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz also said that the draft revision of the KPO, after consultations, will be reviewed by the KPO Monitoring Committee on April 18, and two days later it will be presented during the meeting of the Council of Ministers. Once the government approves it, it will be officially submitted to the European Commission.
Tax on internal combustion cars. What would the fees look like?
Some of the solutions regarding the introduction of new fees for combustion cars were declared in the KPO by the government of Mateusz Morawiecki. After the swearing in of the new Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Climate and Environment confirmed that work on them had started. This includes: registration fee, which would come into force in the first quarter of 2025. Its amount is not yet known, but its assumption is that when purchasing an old combustion car, the buyer is obliged to pay a high one-off levy, which will make the purchase of an old car unprofitable.
The next step would be to introduce a fixed fee. A property tax would be introduced in 2026. It would be collected annually from all owners of combustion cars. It is said that it will also cover hybrid cars. Its amount is also unknown, but it will likely vary depending on the car’s environmental impact.
According to data from the Central Vehicle Database, combustion cars are still the most popular in Poland. In October 2021, there were 38,674,496 of them registered. Of these, 28,817,880 had the active status, and the so-called there were about 10 million dead souls.
Source: Gazeta
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