“I think a good proposal needs to be supported.
Pensioners have the right to receive additional preferences, social guarantees and benefits.
Many of our labor veterans, war veterans and war veterans have already been exempted from payments for major repairs, ”said Svetlana Bessarab, a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs.
In her opinion, the exemption from transport tax is "the next step that needs to be supported."
“Even assuming that many regions allocate special preferential transport cards for the travel of pensioners on public transport, I think by providing a social guarantee, we will make a fair decision: those who use public transport will receive their benefits, those who will use with their own car - they will get theirs.
This is fair, ”the deputy explained.
In turn, the head of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs Yaroslav Nilov proposed to abolish the transport tax in general.
“A more radical proposal is to abolish the transport tax altogether.
Motorists complain because they have repeatedly raised excise taxes, but at the same time they left the tax.
If the car is at a standstill, it does not mean that you have to pay for it, ”the interlocutor of RT concluded.
Earlier, State Duma deputy Ivan Sukharev proposed to exempt vehicles with engine power up to 150 hp belonging to pensioners from transport tax.
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