The taxes on tractors should not be similar to those on SUVs driving on the road, Fuia argued.
The Agriculture Ministry has sent a number of amendments to a bill revising the Tax Code, currently debated by the Chamber of Deputies.
More than 300 farmers took part in a protest Wednesday in Nadlac, Arad county, against a hike in taxes on farm machinery, and marched down the town’s streets driving around 70 tractors. The farmers complained that grouping farm machinery with heavy transport vehicles – as opposed to slow vehicles, as until last year – has increased their local taxes by over ten times.