After increasing the rate and changing the rules for collecting recycling fees, some Russians who ordered cars from abroad faced the need to pay a recycling fee comparable to the cost of the car. In this respect reports bfm.ru.
This situation arose due to the fact that amendments to the government decree on the recycling fee, which came into force on October 29, provide for payment at the rate established for legal entities if a legal entity is involved in import and customs procedures. Car in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. The EAEU includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Certifications for the car ordered at an auction in the United States were issued by a legal entity in Armenia.
“At some point, I learned about this decision by chance. There was no real information about this, so this decision didn’t even exist. Initially, I had to pay a recycling fee of 5 thousand rubles or so, but now I have to pay 1.27 million rubles. “It’s a huge amount, considering I bought the car for that much money,” said the car owner named Anton, who ordered the car through an intermediary in Armenia, and complained to the radio station.
Bfm.ru claims that buyers who find themselves in this situation are asking customs authorities to impose a 30-day moratorium on the application of new rules for closing old transactions.
It was previously known that Russia. imported Record number of cars per month.