National technical heritage could be pulled to the right. The draft government decree amending the Fiscal Code, published in the press at the end of July, provides for the abolition of the tax exemption for vehicles that are part of Romania’s technical and cultural heritage – historical vehicles.

Taxes will be as high as new luxury cars.

Petru Filka is a truck driver from Yabalcea, Karash-Severin County, a man who has been interested in cars since he was 4 years old.

For many years, he collected old and dilapidated trucks, abandoned on the road, where, with passion, patience and considerable financial effort, he brought back to life the history of the trucks produced at the Red Flag truck factory in Brasov.

Petru Filka collected pennies, he also worked in Austria to be able to restore 6 historic trucks, which are now part of his unique collection in Romania.

Now, in the yard of Petru Filka, there is a real open-air museum dedicated to the trucks with which socialist Romania was built.

According to the draft ordinance, he must pay tens of thousands of lei a year for the heritage trucks he has repaired and which mayors invite him to parade.

“I am extremely disappointed. I wanted to keep these copies at all costs, but if we find ourselves in a situation where I will be taxed, I will be forced to write them off,” says Petru Filka.

Read on B365.ro about the impact of huge taxes on vintage cars, as well as on historic cars produced in Romania.