The State, the autonomous communities and the municipalities have already returned 57.3 million euros of the Single Circulation Tax (IUC) paid in excess by taxpayers who bought used cars in Portugal from abroad.
Public reports this Thursday that in 2021 settlements were corrected to 93,773 taxpayers referring to 271,334 cars. An official source from the Treasury explained to the newspaper that each car “may have revisions for different years of liquidation.” That year a total of 39.3 million euros was returned to taxpayers. In 2022, from January to this Thursday, settlements were corrected for 8,767 taxpayers referring to 30,048 automobiles. So far, a total of three million euros have been returned.
Since 2007, the Tax Authority charges used cars the IUC corresponding to new vehicles, without taking into account the initial registration granted abroad. This practice was considered, in 2018, illegal by the Court of Justice of the European Union. In 2019, Portugal corrected the Single Circulation Tax code to end discrimination against second-hand cars. The new calculation came into force in 2020, the year in which the Treasury returned 15 million of the IUC charged in excess.
Adding the returns of 2020, 2021 and this year, since January, it reaches 57.3 million euros, a value advanced by Público —and that does not contain the amount that was returned by the municipalities and autonomous communities in 2020as this has not been revealed so far.
Treasury has already returned 15 million IUC collected more in used cars
Source: Observadora
