Romania's Government will make a decision regarding the new version of the car pollution tax in the next two weeks, while considering a new idea – to introduce a general pollution tax applicable to all cars, Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely said Tuesday.

According to Borbely, the current pollution tax, which is paid upon the car's first registration, might be replaced by a yearly tax, applicable to all automobiles. The minister gave no further details on this idea.

The new tax bill, as drafted on June 17, said the tax would be reduced by 30% as of July 1, 2011. On the same date, the government would have started to refund car owners who had paid the tax in one of its previous incarnations.

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