Newspapers on Tuesday read that a court in Western Romania has ruled that the first car registration tax applied by the government against EU standards starting this year was illegal. On the political side, the newborn Democratic Liberal Party present their political program and organizational structure. One newspaper continues its series of revelations about how a huge price was set for the construction of a highway. And another reports that many Romanian women would rather give birth in Hungary.
Gandul reads that a Romanian man sued the Romanian state after he was forced to pay 2000 euro for the first car registration tax for his second hand car brought from Austria.
The judges ruled that the first car registration tax Ilie Iluna had to pay was illegal as the Romanian law does not comply with European standards. Thus, Iluna will receive his money back even though last week, Economy Minister Varujan Vosganian argued that the money collected on the tax cannot be legally returned.
Moreover, he added that the government will change its legislation by February when the European Commission will decide whether Romania complied with the norms and whether or not the case needs to be forwarded to the European Court of Justice.
Evenimentul Zilei adds that the man was convinced to sue the state by his friend, a lawyer, after he paid the first car registration tax.
Thus, a 27 year old attorney managed to prove that the government of PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu imposes an illegal tax even though European officials have long been pushing the government to comply with EU legislation.
As the trial was won, several other citizens appealed to their lawyer to sue the Romanian state to receive the first car registration tax back which for some amounts to 7000 euro.
On the political stage, the newly born D
