According to the sources, tax refunds will be granted only to car owners who paid the pollution tax starting January 2011.
The Government will make a decision on the matter in its next meeting.
The decision to charge a pollution tax upon the first sale of cars brought to Romania will remain valid, said the sources.
According to a draft normative act recently presented by MEDIAFAX, the car pollution tax will be reduced in value by 30% for every type of engine except Euro 5. The tax on cars with Euro 5 engines or pollutant non-euro cars will be reduced only slightly, or not at all, said the document.
The current car tax system will be changed, following a judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which found the tax in violation of community legislation, as it discourages the sale of used cars from other states to Romania.
The judgment was issued in response to a question by a Romanian court hearing the case of a Romanian national who bought a used car from Germany in July 2008. He paid the pollution tax when registering the car in Romania and complained that it is charged only on imported used cars and not other used cars already registered in the country and then resold.
The Government was also considering charging the pollution tax upon the first sale of cars imported before July 1, 2008, but in an amount reduced by 30%, and refunding part of the tax already paid by owners, in installments over several years, to avoid returning EUR750 million all at once.