It is specified that the initiative concerns only commercial vehicles.
According to Gulyaev, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in addition to this proposal, should prepare some sort of soft leasing program.
“On the one hand, there is an incentive to change the transport, on the other hand, there must be an incentive to make this transport easier to buy and not to be so burdensome,” the expert explained.
Earlier, the Ministry of Industry and Trade suggested starting from 2021 to increase the base rate of the transport tax on Euro-3 ecological class cars and lower.
According to the traffic police, at the end of 2018, 2.1 million Euro-0 passenger cars were registered in Russia, the first - 651.5 thousand cars, the second - 2.6 million cars, Euro-3 - 4.8 million cars.
However, the environmental class is not installed in 14.3 million cars.