Key Benefits:
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Proposed Law No. 277 /X
Exhibition of Motives
The contraction of the markets of the most developed countries, particularly the markets
European and North American, as well as the general slowdown of the economy at the global level,
are having a noticeable repercussion in the automotive sector, whose sales have revealed
a sharp break in recent months.
Recognizing the said situation and the importance of this sector in the national economy, which is
made up not only by companies in the automotive sector, but also by various
other companies that depend on it, urge to adopt corrective measures and to foster the
automotive trade likely to produce immediate effect.
The adoption of such measures shall, however, be made with respect to environmental policy
that in this area it has been being followed in Portugal, thus opting for the majoration
transient from tax incentive to slaughter to end-of-life vehicles and decreasing age
necessary for the said slaughter, which prevents any incentive to purchase the vehicles
more pollutants and limits in time the application of a measure that can come to become
unnecessary with the recovery of the national economy.
The present proposed law thus intends to introduce a more favourable transitional regime
of the tax incentive for the destruction of light automobiles in end of life provided for in the
Decree-Law No 292-A/2000 of November 15, amended and republished by the Decree-Law
n ° 33/2007 of February 15 and with the amendments made by the Law No 64-A/2008,
of December 31, which approved the State Budget for 2009.
Thus:
Under the terms of the paragraph d) of Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the
Assembly of the Republic the following proposal for a law:
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Article 1.
Transitional arrangements for the application of Decree-Law No 292-A/2000 of November 15
1-The amounts of reduction of the vehicle tax set out in points a) and b)
of Article 2 (1) of the Decree-Law No 292-A/2000 of November 15 are set
in € 1250 and € 1500, respectively, applying for the benefit applications
submitted until December 31, 2009, pursuant to Rule 2 (3) of the
even decree-law.
2-The transitional regime referred to in the preceding paragraph applies:
a) For the cases set out in paragraph a) of Article 2 (1) of the Decree-Law
n 292-A/2000, of November 15, light cars to be destroyed with 8
years or more and less than 13 years;
b) For the cases set out in paragraph b) of Article 2 (1) of the Decree-Law
n 292-A/2000, of November 15, light cars to be destroyed with 13
years or more.
Article 2.
Entry into force
This Law shall come into force on the day following that of its publication.
Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of April 16, 2009
The Prime Minister
The Minister of the Presidency
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs