Starting from tomorrow, the tourists coming to Mamaia will have to pay the barrier tax. The tariffs are the same as last year and will be paid only by drivers whose cars are registered in other counties except Constanta.
According to Public Service for Contributions, Taxes and other Incomes to the Local Budget, starting from tomorrow, until 15th of September, those crossing Mamaia will have to pay a three lei tax every time they enter the resort. For those accessing Mamaia more often, the municipality kept the 24 hours pass, against 4 lei. For a seven day pass, drivers will have to pay 25 lei, and the pass for the entire season is 250 lei.
Mamaia barrier tax has always been contested. In March, as a follow to a complaint made by a tourist who paid this tax, the Court of Appeal in Bucharest decided that the access tax for Mamaia is illegal and consequently, it has to be annulled. In June 2007, the barrier tax was reintroduced, once the magistrates of Constanţa Court of Appeal decided, in a final sentence, that special taxes instituted by the local administration are legal.
Besides the barrier tax, the sentence also referred to other taxes, like the road tax, the irrigation tax, safety and public silence tax and that for mobile phone stations. According to some older declarations of the mayor Radu Mazăre, out of this so long disputed tax, the local authorities cashed 1,700,000 lei in 2008, 20,000 lei more than the sum cashed in 2007, and the money was used to organise some cultural, sports and entertaining events, in order to attract more tourists on the sea coast. Starting from tomorrow, the tourists coming to Mamaia will have to pay the barrier tax. The tariffs are the same as last year and will be paid only by drivers whose cars are registered in other counties except Constanta.
According to Public Service for Contributions, Taxes and other
